Patent ID: 8583814

Claim:
A method of protecting distributed content accessible for use within a storage network of computer nodes hosting respective content stores, wherein the computer nodes are interconnected by a communications network, said method comprising the steps of: a) persisting portions of a content file in a plurality of content stores distributed within the storage network such that each content store stores a first subset of a set of the portions comprehensive of said content file; b) concurrently collecting, to a predetermined computer node, redundant sets of the portions comprehensive of said content file from said plurality of content stores to ensure the collection of said set of the portions comprehensive of said content file, the concurrently collecting including making concurrent requests for the redundant sets that comprise duplicate sets of the portions; c) transiently storing a second subset of said set of the portions comprehensive of said content file by said predetermined computer node sufficient to enable streaming presentation of said content file; and d) authenticating each portion of said set as collected.