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What is the reasoning behind not performing de-duplication of common files? It seems incredibly stupid to copy a popular song hundreds of thousands of times whe
by rudiger 15y ago
What is the reasoning behind not performing de-duplication of common files? It seems incredibly stupid to copy a popular song hundreds of thousands of times when a "single" canonical copy would do. Multiple people can stream music from a single file and people with large music collections would wait seconds instead of hours waiting for their songs to upload.
- msg 15y agorevanchist copyright laws on performance of music
- Niten 15y agoIronically requiring that they make more copies, if this is true.
- cake 15y agoYep that must be because of copyright reasons as someone once pointed to me, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com