[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Scott Howard]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Julian DeMarchi
<julian at jdcomputers.com.au>wrote:

> On 02/05/2013 09:02 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:
> > And not to mention P2P torrent traffic is only about 10% of illegal
> > traffic, compared to the 30%+ of file locker and 60%+ of usenet.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
>
> runs over p2p...
>

Parts of that page are very much out of date.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)

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.

  Scott
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