Patent ID: 7383228

Claim:
An end-user system comprising: an interface to a storage media for storing encrypted multimedia content to be rendered using the end-user system using multimedia output devices and/or output ports of the end-user device after decryption of the encrypted multimedia content; a plurality of multimedia input devices and/or input ports, wherein at least one of the multimedia input devices and/or input ports is capable of recording at least part of the encrypted multimedia content which has been decrypted; and a multimedia player for rendering the encrypted digital content, whereby prior to decryption of the encrypted multimedia content, blocking access to all multimedia input devices and/or input ports of the end-user system, the blocking being accomplished by opening all multimedia input devices and/or input ports of the end-user system that can receive any part of the encrypted multimedia content which has been decryrted, to prevent use of such multimedia input devices and/or input ports, thereby preventing re-recording of any part of the encrypted multimedia content which has been decrypted by the end-user device; decrypting at least part of the encrypted multimedia content; and subsequent to decryption, and while access to all such multimedia input devices and/or input ports is blocked, rendering the at least part of the multimedia content which has been decrypted.