Determining storage requirements based on licensing right in a dispersed storage network

A processing system of a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit comprises:

• at least one processor;
• a memory that stores operational instructions, that when executed by the at least one processor cause the processing system to:
• receive a storage request from a user device via a network, wherein the storage request indicates a data object for storage in a distributed storage network (DSN) and wherein the storage request further indicates a licensing identifier associated with the data object;
• generate a plurality of encoded data slices corresponding to the data object by utilizing a dispersed storage error encoding scheme;
• generate storage requirement data based on the licensing identifier, wherein the storage requirement data indicates a plurality of unique instance numbers corresponding to each of the plurality of encoded data slices;
• and
• generate a plurality of write requests, each corresponding to one of the plurality of encoded data slices, each for transmission to one of a plurality of storage units via the network, wherein each of the plurality of write requests indicates a number of unique writes of a corresponding one of the plurality of encoded data slices to the one of the plurality of storage units based on a corresponding unique instance number indicated by the storage requirement data.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprises:

• at least one memory section that stores operational instructions that, when executed by a processing system of a dispersed storage network (DSN) that includes a processor and a memory, causes the processing system to:
• receive a storage request from a user device via a network, wherein the storage request indicates a data object for storage in the DSN and wherein the storage request further indicates a licensing identifier associated with the data object;
• generate a plurality of encoded data slices corresponding to the data object by utilizing a dispersed storage error encoding scheme;
• generate storage requirement data based on the licensing identifier, wherein the storage requirement data indicates a plurality of unique instance numbers corresponding to each of the plurality of encoded data slices;
• and
• generate a plurality of write requests, each corresponding to one of the plurality of encoded data slices, each for transmission to one of a plurality of storage units via the network, wherein each of the plurality of write requests indicates a number of unique writes of a corresponding one of the plurality of encoded data slices to the one of the plurality of storage units based on a corresponding unique instance number indicated by the storage requirement data.