System and Method for Digital Media Rights Management

摘要

A method for digital rights management uniquely associates a user with their digital media player, and encrypts a digital media file upon sale of the media so that the media cannot be decrypted and played by any media player but the one associated with the user.

主权项

1. A method for implementing a digital movie protection system by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises the steps of:
providing a database, wherein the database includes a list of available media files and a list of registered media players; providing a digital media player, wherein the digital media player has unique player attributes, a unique decryption code, and media decryption software; wherein the unique player attributes uniquely identify the digital media player; providing a digital media file, wherein the digital media file has unique file attributes; wherein the unique file attributes uniquely identify the digital media file; receiving the unique player attributes, wherein the unique player attributes include owner identification information; receiving the unique file attributes; storing the unique player attributes and the unique file attributes in the database; encrypting the digital media file with a pre-sale encryption code; receiving a set of customer media player attributes, wherein the customer media player attributes are received from a customer at a media sale point; receiving a set of seller media file attributes, wherein the seller media file attributes are received from a seller at the media sale point; verifying the customer media player attributes as the unique player attributes by comparing the customer media player attributes to the list of registered media players; verifying the seller media file attributes as the unique file attributes by comparing the seller media file attributes to the list of available media files; re-encrypting the digital media file into an owned media file with the pre-sale encryption code and the unique decryption code; copying and sending the owned media file to a customer storage device; playing the digital media file with the digital media player; displaying a security code while playing the owned media file, wherein the security code is unique to the digital media player, and the security code is displayed intermittently; wherein the digital media file cannot be used with any media player while encrypted with the pre-sale encryption code; and wherein the owner identification information uniquely identifies an owner for the digital media player.