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Not necessarily. We already know that things like supernodes are selected based on network conditions. The 'server' interface could just be a reduction of dependencies so that you could run it as a daemon process on a server. The Skype Network would then select it as a super node so long as the server had the right conditions (no NAT, no firewall, fat pipe, etc)

It presumably would still need a Skype login, but that could also be used to control it. Accepting commands from a white-list of Skype Ids.