Comments on: Skype Uses Your Computer to Route Other Peoples’ Skype Calls

By: pedro carvalho

pedro carvalho — Thu, 18 May 2006 11:23:46 +0000

besides privacy, there is also the issue of paid internet traffic. You install skype, they use your line and you pay around 100MB/day, if you leave it turned on all day. And they use your disk, it may get 80% used with some crap you don’t need at all.

By: Johnny Bramham

Johnny Bramham — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:40:02 +0000

If Skype users have proper protection against the more normal internet nasties, I can’t see a particularly big problem with the programme using resources that would otherwise go begging. Bear in mind that nothing in this world is free as such; there is always a price to pay somewhere along the line, so in this case users pay it themselves by ‘donating’ their PC’s resources. Seems fair enough.

By: Glen Farmer

Glen Farmer — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:21:50 +0000

I think that Skype is in cahoots with the postal service. The postal service says “sure we will deliver that letter” and then they make you buy a stamp and Skype says “sure we will let you make a call” and then they make you share your bandwidth.
Coincidence. I think not..

By: Mic Nelson

Mic Nelson — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:16:38 +0000

As a Tech, I am scratching my head why anyone would agree to that? But have been keeping my finger nails trimmed and short lately, been scratching my head a lot to what customers do to their computers. They keep my business thriving.