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Old 22-06-06, 01:33 PM   #1
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Default Sweden and Finland leading Direct Connect countries

Sweden is the leading country in the world when it comes to Direct Connect hubs. With its estimated 1,300 hubs Sweden has a clear lead, although Finland with its 1,100 hubs is also a major DC nation. Countries like US, UK and Holland come way behind, each having 400-600 hubs.

These interesting estimates come from security consulting company Gothia Protection Group located in Göthenburg, Sweden, and they were reported today by Sweden's largest information technology news site IDG. Among the customers of Gothia is the MPAA who used company's intelligence services to chart Pirate Bay activities earlier on.

As for the users of DC hubs, Gothia's measurements give Sweden a similarly convincing lead. An estimated average of 180,000 Swedes are connected to the various DC hubs at any given time. Also on user counts Finland has the second place with its 80,000 concurrently connected users.

When asked for possible reasons for Sweden's world dominance on Direct Connect, Hans Bornsjö from Gothia considered the main reason to be the high broadband penetration in the country. The highly competitive broadband infrastructure has been built partially on Swedish state's subsidies.

Another factor Bornsjö considers important is the extremely liberal attitudes of the Swedes regarding availibility of information. For example, the Swedish laws require almost all official information to be publicly available. As the filesharing technology has advanced, the public's expectations for the free availibility of information have moved over to the filesharing scene to apply also to all copyrighted material like music and movies.


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