Remember, at the time, people were arguing that making a copy of a file in a computer's memory was a violation of copyright.
Major record labels, including Sony and EMI, had suggested that such cloud-based lockers were unlawful because they made a copy of a file without seeking permission from the rights owners.
"Some icons, like the piece of paper, are no problem; but others defy the visual, like 'Undo.' " At one point, there was to be an icon of a copy machine for making a copy of a file, and users would drag and drop a file onto it to copy it, but it was difficult to render a copier at that scale.
The second step is that Streamburst strips out an undetectable but unique series of bits from each copy of a file downloaded.
More sharing means there are more potential locations where copies of a given file are located, which in turn increases access speed.
Always make a back-up copy of any file you plan to edit or replace.
The evaluation data consisted of multiple copies of a single read file from the Meta-HIT study [ 6].
"Their filings for copyright infringement are probably correct — if a downloader made an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted file, they could probably be held liable for copyright infringement.
The problem is that when you make a copy of a digital file, you get something identical to the original, and you can do so ad infinitum.
