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That Skype uses supernodes is interesting, but makes some sense since it was developed by the same people who developed Kazaa (a P2P filesharing service), which
by arn 16y ago
That Skype uses supernodes is interesting, but makes some sense since it was developed by the same people who developed Kazaa (a P2P filesharing service), which as I recall has a similar architecture.
- nedrichards 16y agoSo much so that they actually licenced the Joltid technology that they spun out of Kazaa. There was a lawsuit: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2009/11/joltid_settlement.html http://blogs.skype.com/en/2009/11/joltid_settlement.html There were in fact several lawsuits related to licencing this stuff.