Patent ID: 8661557

Claim:
A system for granting access to content, comprising: one or more computing devices having one or more processors that perform actions, including: receiving from a client computer a key useable to authenticate at least the client computer to provide at least one content ticket, wherein a key is encoded onto at least one of a business card, a receipt, or a credit card, the key being useable to enable the client computer to receive the at least one content ticket; providing to the client computer the at least one content ticket that enables access to at least a portion of the content; enabling the at least the portion of the content to be downloaded onto the client computer where the downloaded portion includes executable code blocks that are part of an application; enabling at least some of the downloaded portion of executable code blocks to execute on the client computer; before all of the at least a portion of content including additional executable code blocks are downloaded onto the client computer, enabling at least one downloaded block of executable code to modify execution of at least a portion of the application; granting access to the downloaded content for a defined period of time; and when it is determined that the defined period of time is expired, degrading a performance of the modified application over time.