Direct Connect (DC) is Peer ton Peer minutes, in addition the name of a computer program, which implements this minutes. Finally becomes also the file sharing network, which the users develop by their participation, when Direct Connect designates.

Direct Connect minutes became of the company NeoModus Inc. sketched. In addition the company Server- and Client Software, whom use this minutes, developed both nowadays by the few users is however only used. With DC it concerns a central system. It exists a server, which so-called stroke, to which are connected a set of Clients. Either the user is connected, should know he the destination address, directly with the stroke, or selected from one of the various stroke lists which are available in the Internet. Beside general stroke exist also still such, whose user is limited with priority to a certain topic area.

Once connected with the stroke, the user of a Clients can participate on the one hand in a IRC-well-behaved Chat. A public channel as well as the possibility exist of conversing privately. In addition the user can release listings (sharing). The files contained in it can be downloaded then by every other user in the stroke. The operators of the stroke have additionally the possibility of extending the Hauptchat with Skripten to make possible to call up as for example the user, statistics over the respective stroke. This is not supported however by each Client software.

The user must specify, how he makes many Uploadslots available. Most public stroke set a minimum limit at Uploadslots firmly (often two or three, additionally frequently still another further for each stroke, with which the user straight is connected), without which the entrance is refused to the user. Maximally one up this Slots can then another user take, in order to download a file.

The search for files takes place either over a retrieval query after names. Alternatively a list of all approved files of a user can be requested, over therein after interesting one too

The system scales in practice badly on very large user numbers. Largest stroke reach rarely an amount of user connected at the same time of more than 6000. However can connect itself stroke. Then retrieval queries are further-sent also on neighbour stroke, in order to increase the chance to hits.

Closed communities can be created by the possibility of a password assignment with DC. Alternatively the entrance is often made more difficult by a demanded minimum quantity at approved data (minimumshed). A further possibility for the restriction is limiting permissible Client connections to a certain IP range. So then for example only computers from a local network can access the stroke.

By taking the completely free entrance away some stroke operators expect in addition to go to legal problems out of the way. Also in many DC stroke in copyright matters protected material is exchanged. By the industry the entrance is to be made more difficult to paid investigators like the coworkers of the GVU by the hurdles mentioned.

DC is a popular system (in Norway DC++ was 2004 according to Google spirit of the time the third-most frequent search word of the country, at the beginning of 2005 was in the entire DC network according to hublist.org of approximately 800,000 users in approximately 5400 of stroke on-line). Often more than 10 Petabyte data are to be found in public stroke.

Related links

• Unofficial minutes specification
• Software: Direct Connect projects with Freshmeat.net
• Land/user statistics to Direct Connect
• Wikipedia: WikiReader/p2p-filesharing

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