DISTRIBUTION OF MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT TO A USER DEVICE

摘要

A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module determining, for multi-media content that has not been released, access priority for a user device and selecting a pre-release data distribution protocol and a post-release data distribution protocol. The method continues with the DS processing module distributing a plurality of pre-release sub-sets of a plurality of sets of encoded data slices to the user device in accordance with the selected pre-release data distribution protocol, wherein the multi-media content is dispersed storage error encoded to produce the plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the DS processing module distributing a plurality of second sub-sets of the plurality of sets of encoded data slices to the user device in accordance with the selected post-release data distribution protocol.