Method and apparatus for portably binding license rights to content stored on optical media

A playback system for playing back encrypted content associated with a first globally unique identifier (ID), the playback system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a memory controller, the memory being under control of the memory controller having a second globally unique ID;
• the playback system configured to execute computer instructions to:
• receive the encrypted content;
• store the encrypted content in the memory;
• storing the first globally unique ID in the memory or another memory accessible by the memory controller;
• transmit a playback license request from the memory controller to a license server, the playback license request comprising the first globally unique ID, the second globally unique ID and a request for a content license to play back the encrypted content from the memory using the memory controller;
• receive the content license enabling one or more rights to the encrypted content including a right for the playback of the encrypted content from the memory using the memory controller, the content license including one or more content keys and being encrypted to be decryptable according to a memory controller secret associated with the second globally unique ID;
• decrypt the content license by the memory controller, according to the memory controller secret associated with the second globally unique ID, to recover and provide the one or more content keys to a playback module;
• decrypt, using the playback module, the encrypted content using the one or more content keys to generate a decrypted content;
• and
• playback, using the playback module, the decrypted content.