Patent ID: 7305088

Claim:
A business method, for distributing a movie from a movie distribution end to a public movie theater in which the movie is to be screened, comprising: preparing sets of DVD-ROMs on the movie distribution end by dividing scene data of a master movie film produced by a movie producer into non-serial video data in which scene data sets are randomly distributed to units of scenes and randomly writing the units of scenes into each set of the DVD-ROMs as content, said each set of DVD-ROMs comprising a plurality of DVD-ROMs randomly written with a complete copy of the scene data of the master movie film without marking a time sequence thereon; physically distributing one set of said DVD-ROMs to the theater; setting the distributed set of the DVD-ROMs to an apparatus at the theater; reading out content stored in the set of the DVD-ROMs; storing all of the read-out contents of the set of the DVD-ROMs in a storage of the apparatus; producing video data from the contents stored in the storage of the apparatus after completion of the storing by reading out and sorting the units of scenes in a correct sequence; screening the movie in the movie theater through use of the produced video data, wherein in the preparing step, the units of scenes are encrypted and written into each set of the DVD-ROMs, and wherein different encryption methods are used for sets of the DVD-ROMs physically distributed to different theaters.