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Video-on-demand (VOD) servers have a limited amount of bandwidth with which to service client requests. Conventional VOD servers dedicate a unique stream of data for each client, and that strategy can quickly allocate all of the available bandwidth on the server. We describe a system called stream tapping that allows clients to t ap into existing streams on the VOD server. By using...