Peter Robles, a composer who also manages classical musicians, points out that the process of online dissemination — players watching one another's videos, recording their own — multiplies the channels by which musical innovation has always circulated.
"I am surprised to have been included, because I'm the kind of writer who has always circulated in small editions by alternative presses, " Mr. Yushimito, 32, said this week in a telephone interview from Providence, R.I. "This puts me in a different sphere, one that is much more public, so I received the news with a mixture of anxiety and curiosity.
"Here, drug trafficking has always helped circulate money," says Stéphane Gatignon, Sevran's Green mayor.
There are renewed questions about Paterno's coaching touch, the kind that have circulated before -- and have always been disproved -- after low points in his career.
These heavily circulated snapshots have focused instead more on the quirky personalities, underdog efforts and curious moments that have always been a part of the Olympics but now spread to a wider audience.
Small-business owners, many of them local, have always frequented one another's restaurants, shops and bars, even before the extra money started circulating.
"Men have always provided the marriage home, so women's rights have been hurt," the author and columnist Zhao Geyu wrote in an essay circulating widely online.
While Mr. Nolan said he had not seen evidence that employees had abused their car privileges, "there has always been anecdotal information circulating".
When such travesty works enter the public realm, questions of intention and deception may arise – although a fair proportion of literature has always been and still is circulated anonymously or pseudonymously.
