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They got patent trolled and flinched. They removed the things that made Skype best in class and turned it into just another low quality corporate messenger.
by iratewizard 5y ago
They got patent trolled and flinched. They removed the things that made Skype best in class and turned it into just another low quality corporate messenger.
- pzduniak 5y agoWas it really due to that lawsuit? IIRC the main issue with P2P was that you could discover anyone's IP address by knowing their Skype username. I recall that people used this to DoS people in multiplayer video games - they looked up accounts with roughly the same name as the in-game one and proceeded to drop their connection. It was especially common in League of Legends.
- throwaway89645 5y agoYep - It was bad enough that it was common practice for people to proxy their skypes through a third party. (It was pretty nice that Skype let you do that really easily though)