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I thought the removal of P2P was due to a patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US6108704 https://www.google.com/patents/US6108704

• striking 11y ago
  They never truly abandoned it, but most connections are served through dedicated servers now. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-supernodes-with-linux-boxes-hosted-by-microsoft/ http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...
  • abrookewood 11y ago
    The reason for the move to dedicated servers (AFAIK) was because without it, they couldn't really do offline messages. Once WhatsApp etc started doing this, the Skype team realised that their greatest strength (no paying for bandwidth or servers etc) was actually their greatest weakness, since they couldn't deliver the features that people had begun to expect from chat apps. There was a great article on this .. but I can't find it.
    • api 11y ago
      You can do both.
• api 11y ago
  Isn't that expired now? And if it covers p2p it's ridiculous. All PSNs are prior art
• awqrre 11y ago
  I thought that was to allow Microsoft to be able to comply with government requests...