Patent ID: 7703146

Claim:
A method for copy protection of a recording medium, the method comprising: receiving data in a recording module representing content to be recorded on the recording medium, the data including an indication that the content is to be protected from unauthorized copying; responsive to the indication, signaling a protection module to initiate a protection protocol in synchronization with the recording module; conveying to the protection module sub-code channel information containing Program Memory Area (PMA) data for skipping at least part of a track of protected content on playback; generating control information using the sub-code channel information by the protection module so as to cause an unauthorized readout device to skip the at least part of a track of protected content during playback, to prevent the unauthorized copying of the content that is to be protected; conveying the control information from the protection module to the recording module, in accordance with the protocol; combining the control information with the data representing the content in the recording module; and recording the data combined with the control information on the recording medium.