METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SECURELY TRANSMITTING AND DISTRIBUTING INFORMATION AND FOR PRODUCING A PHYSICAL INSTANTIATION OF THE TRANSMITTED INFORMATION IN AN INTERMEDIATE, INFORMATION-STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

A method and system for securing retrieval of content, and transcription of the retrieved content to a physical medium in a form not readily susceptible to interception. Encrypted and compressed content is retrieved from a series of servers, via the Internet or other communications pathway, by a consumer. Once the content is present in local storage, or is accessible through a high−rate−of−transfer medium, client−side software running on the consumer's computer or other appliance coordinates with one or more servers to decompress and re−encrypt the content into memory of the consumer's computer or other appliance, and then to decrypt and transfer, a portion at a time, the content from the memory of the consumer's computer or other appliance to a writeable CD within a CD drive of the consumer's computer or other computing appliance, producing a final information−containing CD. During this process, only a small portion of the content appears in decompressed and fully decrypted form within the memory of the consumer's computer or other electronic device. Otherwise, the content is compressed and well protected by one or more layers of encryption.