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TL;DR: Downloading and uploading offer labour‐saving advantages and are now accepted as useful options in online searching, but disadvantages are in the length of time involved and the fact that the legal issue of copyright has not yet been finalised.
Abstract: Downloading and uploading offer labour‐saving advantages and are now accepted as useful options in online searching. All aspects are here considered, from recent technical advances, applications and legal attitudes. There is also a review of current software for downloading. Recent developments mean a trend to higher internal memory and storage capacity, and greater transmission speeds. Packages now offer access to more than one host, give maximum assistance to the user without being menu‐driven and incorporate the latest developments in artificial intelligence. Disadvantages are in the length of time involved in the process and the fact that the legal issue of copyright has not yet been finalised. Database producers have turned to licensing under contract law, but there is still need to rely on user ethics, and the need for a standard permissions form is highlighted.
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TL;DR: Hardware and software components for automatically collecting data from remote sites and then uploading them to a host computer are described.