Patent ID: 8359246

Claim:
A method for a secondary marketplace of digital media comprising: at least one of one or more computers obtaining a portable storage medium from a user, which the user previously purchased, said portable storage medium storing one or more digital media content items, wherein possession of the portable storage medium inherently represents ownership of a utilization right for one or more digital media content items and possession of a transfer right for the one or more digital media content items; at least one of one or more computers extracting at least the utilization right and the transfer right for the digital media content items, disposing of the portable storage medium after the extracting, and adding the previously stored digital media content items to a plurality of previously sold digital media content items available through a secondary marketplace; the secondary marketplace providing, via one or more computing devices, potential consumers with the plurality of previously sold digital media content items, wherein the plurality of digital media content items have been acquired from a plurality of original consumers, wherein each of the original consumers previously purchased a utilization right and a transfer right to at least one of the digital media content items, wherein said utilization right grants a right to utilize a single copy of the corresponding digital media content item, and wherein the transfer right of the corresponding digital media content item grants a legal right to transfer ownership of the utilization right in the corresponding digital media content item to another; at least one of the one or more computing devices receiving a user selection of one of the digital media content items of the secondary marketplace; and responsive to the user selection, at least one of the one or more computing devices transferring a utilization right to the selected one of the digital media content items to a user, who is different from the original consumer from whom the secondary marketplace acquired the selected one of the digital media content items, where after the transferring of the utilization right, the original consumer from whom the secondary marketplace acquired the selected one of the digital media content items does not possess the utilization right to the selected one of the digital media content items, wherein the transferring of the utilization right occurs without the secondary marketplace providing the user with a new tangible storage medium that contains the selected one of the digital media content items.