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Apparently Chatroulette involves a direct connection between individuals, so it's possible to determine the IP address of the person you are connected to. For

by travisp 17y ago

Apparently Chatroulette involves a direct connection between individuals, so it's possible to determine the IP address of the person you are connected to. For it not to be a direct connection, Chatroulette would require some pretty heavy resources to stream everyone's video.

MichaelGG 17y ago
As per http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/?src=twt&twt=nytimesbits http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-found... : "Network throughput is 7 gigabits a second." which would sort of line up with ~20K users at ~50K video streams.