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They were also paid a bunch of money to buy Skype and rearchitect it to enable wiretapping. It's not like they've "seen the light", depending on their incentives their actions change.

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Do you have a link for that, or is it still speculation?

It's still speculation, and one of Skype's lead engineers wrote a completely sane explanation of how the centralization had to happen if Skype was going to work well on mobile, since you're not exactly going to be getting tons of supernodes on iPhones. You're welcome to believe that they also did it for government reasons, but there are definitely sane technological reasons, too. I'll update this comment with a link in a few minutes if I find it.

Something like this: http://www.zdnet.com/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supernodes-f...

Internet: ZOMG there's so much spam and malware being transmitted via Skype. You have to do something!

MS: We have enabled URL filtering on Skype messages.

Internet: ZOMG you're reading my private messages. You monsters!

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