Stream as a return value in WCF - who disposes it?

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Let's say I have the following WCF implementation:

public Stream Download(string path)
{
    FileStream stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
    return stream;
}

Who's responsible for disposing the returned value? After all, a network failure might occur, hence the consumer might not be able to dispose it.

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