Patent ID: 8831218

Claim:
A digital rights management system, said system comprising: a storage device comprising a storage medium configured to store content and a storage device controller including a hardware cryptographic processor, wherein the hardware cryptographic processor is configured to generate and store a unique number, read defect information from the storage medium and perform cryptographic operations on the defect information to derive a defect number unique to the storage device, store the derived defect number on the storage medium, perform cryptographic operations on the unique number and the unique defect number to generate a binding key, and provide the binding key to a content download server; a content key server configured to provide content keys to a content download server; a content download server configured to perform cryptographic operations on at least a binding key received from a storage device and a content cryptographic key received from a content key server to generate an access key, encrypt at least a portion of a content with at least the content cryptographic key, provide the encrypted content to the storage device, provide the content key received from the content key server; and a media player configured to receive a binding key and a content key from the storage device, perform cryptographic operations on the binding key and content key to generate a content cryptographic key and decrypt the content from the storage device based on the content cryptographic key.