Patent ID: 8719946

Claim:
A method for securely playing coherent digital content and preventing its play by unauthorized users, the coherent digital content comprising extracted media content and segmented media content, comprising the steps of: providing one or more storage devices comprising portable storage media and made available to one or more client devices, the portable storage media receiving and storing incoherent digital content comprising the segmented media content, wherein the segmented media content has predetermined gaps comprising audio distortion; upon the one or more client devices obtaining authorization of entitlement to receive the coherent digital content, temporarily returning and merging the extracted media content with the segmented media content using information comprising one or more reassembly algorithms transmitted over at least the Internet to the one or more client devices and instructing the merger of the extracted media content within the predetermined gaps of the segmented media content, the use of which enables a temporary reconstitution of the extracted media content with the segmented media content to enable playing or execution of the reconstituted coherent digital content by the one or more authorized client devices, wherein at least one of the extracted media content and the one or more reassembly algorithms do not remain permanently available to the one or more authorized client devices after playing or execution of the reconstituted coherent digital content.