System and method for streaming content from multiple servers

A server for streaming multiple content items to a client device over the Internet, each content item comprises:

• a streaming media data and is identified by a content item identifier and composed of first and second distinct content parts,
• further for use with additional multiple content items, each content item of the additional multiple content items comprises:
• a streaming media data and is identified by a content item identifier and composed of first and second distinct content parts,
• wherein the first content part comprises the beginning of the respective content playing data, the server comprising a memory that is composed of first and second memory parts, the memory the first memory part stores the first parts of the multiple content items and the second memory part stores the first and second content parts of the additional multiple content items, and the server is operative to:
• receive, from the client device, a first request for a first content of one of the multiple content items using the respective content item identifier;
• and
• stream, to the client device in response to the first request, the first part of the first content,
• wherein the streaming is based on, using, or according to, progressive download or adaptive bit-rate streaming,
• wherein the streaming media data includes digital video data that is in a High-Definition (HD) or Standard-Definition (SD) format,
• wherein the number of distinct content items in the multiple content items is more than the number of distinct content items in the additional multiple content items, and
• wherein the number of distinct content items in the multiple content items is more than 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 800, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, 8,000, 10,000 the number of distinct content items in the additional multiple content items.