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Downloading means receiving data from a remote system to a local system, such as receiving a file from a web server. A download can refer to either the process of receiving a file or the file that has been received. Downloading is distinguished from streaming which refers to receiving data that is used immediately without being fully stored.

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Download: For Other Uses, See

Downloading means receiving data from a remote system to a local system, such as receiving a file from a web server. A download can refer to either the process of receiving a file or the file that has been received. Downloading is distinguished from streaming which refers to receiving data that is used immediately without being fully stored.

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Download

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Download (disambiguation).

An image/sign for downloading to ahard disk drive(HDD)

In computer networks, to download means to receive data to a local system from a remote system,
or to initiate such a data transfer. Examples of a remote system from which a download might be
performed include a web server, FTP server,email server, or other similar systems.
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A download can mean either any file that is offered for downloading or that has been downloaded, or
the process of receiving such a file.
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2 Copyright

3 See also

4 References

Definition[edit]

Download data is sent downstream to an end-user, upstream from the provider

The term downloading is distinguished from the related concept of streaming, which indicates the
receiving of data that is used nearly immediately as it is received, while the transmission is still in
progress and which may not be stored long-term, whereas in a process described using the
term downloading, this would imply that the data is only usable when it has been received in its
entirety.
Increasingly, websites that offer streaming media or media displayed in-browser, such as YouTube,
and which place restrictions on the ability of users to save these materials to their computers after
they have been received, say that downloading is not permitted. In this context, download implies
specifically "receive and save" instead of simply "receive". However, it is also important to note

that downloading is not the same as "transferring" (i.e., sending/receiving data between two storage
devices would be a transferral of data, but receiving data from the Internet would be considered
a download).

Copyright[edit]
See also: Copyright aspects of downloading and streaming
Downloading copyrighted content can be illegal.

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Copyright aspects of downloading and streaming

Digital distribution

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