0 a website that is an exact copy of another website, but with a different address, allowing more people to be able to see and use it --
1 a website that is an exact copy of another website, but with a different address, allowing more people to be able to see and use it: --
Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads.
After a couple of weeks this became untenable; a global protest against the censorship emerged, and a global network of mirror sites was created by the online community.
Handles can, therefore, resolve to different digital versions of the same content, to mirror sites, or to different business models (pay vs. free, secure vs. open, public vs. private).
Though many attempts to do this have proved successful, media interest has also meant that the documents frequently re-surface on mirror sites.
This is especially troublesome for mirror sites which host many gigabytes of data.
However, it can still be downloaded from mirror sites.
The lies remained for another three weeks on the mirror sites downstream.
The constituent files may be local and/or retrieved from one or more mirror sites.
