Patent ID: 8707448

Claim:
A system for distributing media data that comprises at least one of video data and audio data, the system comprising: a central processing unit (CPU), a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage media; first program instructions to send an initial, degraded version of the media data to a recipient; second program instructions to send a subsequent version of the media data to the recipient subsequent to an identity of the recipient being confirmed, wherein the subsequent version of the media data includes data portions from the media data that were removed from the media data in forming the initial, degraded version of the media data; third program instructions to remove portions of data from the media data; fourth program instructions to replace the portions of data that are removed from the media data with dummy data to form the initial, degraded version of the media data; and fifth program instructions to merge the initial, degraded portion and the subsequent version to form a duplicate copy of the media data by replacing the dummy data with the portions of data that were removed.