Patent ID: 7870282

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by one or more processors of a server are adapted to cause the server to perform a method comprising: sensing the presence of a physical medium loaded on a media-sharing network; sensing the presence of metadata and content on the physical medium; copying the content on the physical medium, wherein a first portion of the content containing metadata cannot be copied; locating the first portion of the content in a metadata server; copying the first portion of the content from the metadata server; wrapping the metadata, the first portion of the content, and the content in a container, wherein the container includes a location of the metadata and a location of the content; and assembling the container such that it is recognized as a virtual physical medium on the media sharing network and such that it enables playback of the content by control commands compatible with a media sharing protocol.