Patent ID: 8893301

Claim:
A system comprising: one or more processors; and computer-readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, instruct the one or more processors to perform acts for enabling permissible transfer of access rights to digital goods among different users each having an account stored at a network resource server accessible by user devices associated with said users, the acts comprising: storing a digital good obtained from an authorized source in a cloud data store, wherein the digital good in the cloud data store is accessible by a user device associated with a first user through an account of the first user in the form of a stream in which the digital good is accessed by the user device associated with the first user without storing the digital good at the user device associated with the first user and the digital good is present in the user device associated with the first user only temporarily during the act of streaming, wherein the access rights stored in the account of the first user determine the first user's access to the digital good, and wherein the digital good is a digital good in which the first user has legitimately obtained access rights; determining that the access rights to the digital good are available for transfer from the account of the first user; providing an indication that the access rights to the digital good are available for transfer from the account of the first user; receiving a request to transfer the access rights to the digital good to the account of a second user, wherein the digital good in the cloud data store is accessible by a user device associated with the second user through said account of said second user wherein the access rights stored in the account of the second user determine the second user's access to the digital good; authorizing transfer of the access rights to the digital good to the account of the second user based on satisfaction of one or more business rules; upon authorization of the request to transfer the access rights to the digital good to the account of the second user, exclusively transferring the access rights to the digital good from the account of the first user to the account of the second user while said digital good remains in said cloud data store without transferring the digital good, such that the digital good is accessible by the user device associated with the second user in the form of a stream in which the digital good is accessed by the user device associated with the second user without storing the digital good at the user device associated with the second user and the digital good is present in the user device associated with the second user only temporarily during the act of streaming; and deleting the access rights to the digital good from the account of the first user, thereby excluding the account associated with the first user from accessing the digital good.