After Charlie Paglee reported a Chinese team had "cracked" Skype's network last week, Fu Shiguang (時光) talked and emailed with those researchers and posted excerpts. They clarify and correct some parts of the story. Aside from being huge Skype fans and having met with Skype people, the take away is this bit:

We have no interest in cracking, replicating, reverse engineering or pirating Skype's software. We just want to invent a better one. Having learned from and inspired by Skype, we are going to create a P2P Internet platform where all social groups can enjoy efficient, secure and free communication. This network platform will be better than SkypeNet that we are using today.

The story isn't over.