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To download is to receive data from a remote or central system, such as a webserver, FTP server, mail server, or other similar systems. A download is any file that is offered for downloading or that has been downloaded.The word's primary usage comes in the form of a verb. 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.1 That is, "download" is used to mean "receive and save" instead of simply "receive".
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The inverse operation is to send data from a local system to a remote system, FTP server, or website. For example, "Uploading a video to Wikipedia" means sending a video to the website.2 The difference between uploading and downloading is downloading means to receive and save and uploading means to send and save. Thus when someone is uploading a file to a server or computer from the recieving it is called downloading.
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When applied to local transfers or copies, for example "Downloading all pictures from the digital camera to the computer" or "Uploading the edited pictures to CD", the "up" and "down" prefixes may be used interchangeably, though one convention is to use "uploading" for the device sending the content and "downloading" for the device receiving content based on a client-server model.
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See also
- BitTorrent (protocol)
- Digital Pack Rat
- Download manager
- File sharing
- File Transfer Protocol
- Metalink
- Music download
- Peer-to-peer
- MediaFire
References
- ^ "YouTube - Terms of Use". YouTube, LLC (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-25.
- ^ Legend Internet - Jargon Buster
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