DC Hubs blamed for slow growth of digital music business in the country.
The Finnish Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) has announced that it has launched a major crackdown on DC Hub users and admins throughout the country.
Antti Kotilainen, CIAPC Director said: “These actions shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. All of these hubs have had several thousand members and their operators were facilitating mass infringement of copyright, involving hundreds of thousands of music files and tens of thousands of movie files. The operators of DC hubs should be aware that we will be filing more complaints in the near future.”
CIAPC estimates that during 2006 there were more than 150,000 active file-sharers in Finland, most of them using local Finnish DC hubs.
Finland apparently has one of the world’s “most advanced online environments” and also has one of the largest concentrations of copyright-infringing P2P hubs. This is cited as a key factor in the relatively slow development of the country’s online digital music business.
John Kennedy, Chairman and CEO of IFPI, representing the recording industry worldwide said: “We welcome the action taken today by the Finnish police against the operators of illegal P2P hubs. These operators were facilitating mass infringement of copyrighted music, draining investment in the Finnish creative industries and in particular hurting local Finnish acts who represent well over half the music market. The actions announced today, and those that will follow, are a message to illegal DC hub operators – they have no hiding place and their activities will not be tolerated.”
Halli Kristinsson, the Vice-President and Regional Director for anti-piracy operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa., said: “We warmly welcome the Finnish police actions against these hub operators. Nordic countries, especially Finland and Sweden, are among the worst, when it comes to illegal filesharing of movies using DirectConnect.”
So far there have been no reports on the number of people arrested but, if DC Hubs are as popular as authorities and the IFPI maintain it could be quite a few.
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