Don&#x27;t bring facts to the piss on Skype party... This is 100% true. I worked at a state university. If someone was running Skype, because of the algorithm  for determining such things, our users all became supernodes on the Skype P2P network which pummeled the network.<p>They eventually banned Skype on any machine connected to the network with prejudice. This impacted international research projects as Skype had been saving a ton of international comm. money to that point.<p>And, as usual, those who have a gripe are loud. I use Skype every day and I am never able to feign like I don&#x27;t get messages from people. It never drops and it hits three devices at once. My digital leash serves its masters just fine...