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[Stilgherrian]

On 05/02/2010, at 11:05 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> It'd be hard to prove someone had uploaded a complete file to another  
> particular person using bittorrent.

There's a long discussion of this in the judgement.

To summarise poorly, the act of "make available online" was considered to have happened when a member of a BitTorrent swarm had finally received all pieces of a file and has first flagged as a "seeder", i.e. a client with all pieces. Also, the judgement considers the entire swarm as one entity, saying that to start thinking of each piece as an individual transmission or make-available act is looking at the process at the wrong scale -- akin to looking at individual data packets.

Stil


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