Patent ID: 8406453

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an audiovisual master file from a movie recording studio or other organization containing an audiovisual presentation including a to-be-released or recently released movie, the audiovisual master file being in a first encoded and compressed format; adding watermark characters to the encoded audiovisual master file, the watermark characters identifying time and place of encoding; adding camera artifacts to the encoded audiovisual master file; encrypting the encoded audiovisual master file to create an encrypted encoded audiovisual master file; generating keys associated with the encrypted encoded audiovisual master file for using in decoding the encrypted encoded audiovisual master file; transmitting the encrypted encoded audiovisual master file and the associated keys to a distribution point host computer; loading the transmitted encrypted encoded audiovisual master file on the distribution point host computer; linking the distribution point host computer with a self-contained entertainment device and establishing bidirectional authentication between the distribution point host computer and the self-contained entertainment device through use, in part, of an input-output of the self-contained entertainment device, wherein the self-contained entertainment device including a display, processor and hard drive integrally formed in a single, portable device; after bi-directional authentication occurs, using the distribution point host computer to delete at least some of the previously loaded encrypted encoded audiovisual master files from the self-contained entertainment device; using the distribution point host computer to transfer the newly loaded encrypted encoded audiovisual master file and keys associated with the newly loaded encrypted encoded audiovisual master file to the self-contained entertainment device to which the distribution point host computer is linked without decryption of the newly loaded encrypted encoded audiovisual master file being transferred to the self-contained entertainment device; and storing the newly loaded encrypted encoded audiovisual master file and the keys associated with the newly loaded encrypted encoded audiovisual master file on the hard drive of the self-contained entertainment.