Abstract: A network storage system for a download intensive environment is provided. The network storage comprises at least a data storage server (DSS) that includes an interface enabling connection of the DSS to a network at a location that enables at least a view of network transactions performed by a plurality of clients; a storage unit; and a system adapted to monitor the network transactions occurring on the network and identification of the network transactions as belonging to a registered client of the DSS, and storing in the storage the transactions with an identification corresponding to the registered client.