On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Julian DeMarchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julian@jdcomputers.com.au" target="_blank">julian@jdcomputers.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 02/05/2013 09:02 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:<br>
> And not to mention P2P torrent traffic is only about 10% of illegal<br>
> traffic, compared to the 30%+ of file locker and 60%+ of usenet.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype</a><br>
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runs over p2p...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Parts of that page are very much out of date. Although Skype is still technically peer-to-peer based, the "peers" (supernodes) that previously could be any other Skype users system, are now only Microsoft systems in Microsoft datacenters. So in essence, it's more of a client-server architecture than P2P (even though it still does use P2P-style concepts to find those servers)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even so, it's a moot point - Telstra aren't talking about throttling "P2P", they are talking about throttling specific P2P protocols - and dollars-to-donuts says Skype would not be one of those they are considering.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Scott</div></div>