Patent ID: 8694479

Claim:
One or more computer-readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed on a processor, instruct the processor to perform acts comprising: receiving, at an originating server, a request to legitimately obtain a digital object; receiving, at the originating server, a preference to place the legitimately obtained digital object in a personalized data store comprising a user-specific storage location associated with, and remote from, a user associated with the user request, the user being able to manipulate digital objects in the user-specific storage location associated with the user; and transferring the digital object from the originating server to an intermediate storage location along with an instruction instructing the intermediate storage location to forward the digital object to the personalized data store located on a server different from the originating server and remote from the user, the server different from the originating server having a plurality of users and a plurality of user-specific storage locations corresponding to the plurality of users; wherein the intermediate storage location is an electronic device under the control or direction of the user.