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Originally Posted by gideongallery
no the concept of a cloud is a generic computer term
that the definition which was recognized by the courts
any "shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisions and released with minimal mangement effor or service provider interaction' quualifies period.
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I still think a swarm of users is different than a cloud of servers. If you read that article you link to above that covers the ruling one of the defenses they successfully made was that when a users pushes record on their remote one copy of the program they are recording is made on the server. If 1000 people record that show 1000 copies are made and each person plays back their person saved copy.
With a swarm (which I assume you mean torrent) you are actually distributing the work out to dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of people. Sure you are only giving each person a small piece, but to me that is still distribution. If you are downloading, but not uploading to the swarm then essentially you are taking a small bit from many users. To use the articles example you would be taking a small piece from the 1000's of saved copies, not just from the one you created.
There is a difference.