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Interesting the apparent legal (and social) distinction between streaming and downloading, where technically the distinction is mostly in whether the data conti
by andrewaylett 10y ago
Interesting the apparent legal (and social) distinction between streaming and downloading, where technically the distinction is mostly in whether the data continues to be stored after it's been watched -- the decision about whether the data transfer is a 'stream' or a 'download' is pretty much entirely down to the client.
- user5994461 10y agoAnd we'll note that browsers usually write the stream to the disk and it stays there for an unbounded amount of time, so streaming is equivalent to downloading [most of the time].