Method of purchasing digital music, concerts, movies, television shows

A method of distributing digital entertainment works, comprising:

• (a) providing a packaged card, the card or packaging containing a code and information as to a digital entertainment work associated with said card;
• (b) distributing said card to a purchaser;
• (c) providing a website having a transfer area, said website being accessible over the Internet by said purchaser utilizing a user computer;
• (d) in response to the purchaser requesting access to a transfer area of said website, inputting prompted information about the digital entertainment work and the code;
• (e) verifying an authenticity of said card using said prompted information provided by said purchaser;
• (f) providing said purchaser access to said transfer area for the purpose of transferring said digital entertainment work, if the authenticity of said card is verified;
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• (g) transferring the digital entertainment work onto the user computer in response to a purchaser direction to do so.

A method of distributing digital entertainment works, comprising:

• (a) providing a plurality of cards, each of said cards containing a code and information as to a digital entertainment work associated with said each card;
• (b) distributing said each card to a purchaser;
• (c) populating a database with said code and said information for each of said plurality of cards;
• (d) providing a website having a transfer area, said website being accessible over the Internet by said purchaser utilizing a user computer and said website having access to said database;
• (e) verifying an authenticity of said each card in response to the purchaser requesting access to a transfer area of said website and, in response to a direction, inputting the code and prompted information as to the digital entertainment work,
• (f) providing said purchaser access to said transfer area for the purpose of transferring said digital entertainment work;
• and transferring the digital entertainment work onto the user computer in response to a purchaser request.

A method of distributing digital entertainment works, comprising:

• (a) providing a packaged poster, the poster or packaging containing a code and information as to a digital entertainment work associated with each said poster;
• (b) distributing said poster to a purchaser;
• (c) providing a website having a transfer area, said website being accessible over the Internet by said purchaser utilizing a user computer;
• (d) in response to the purchaser requesting access to a transfer area of said website and, in response to a direction, inputting the code and prompted information about the digital entertainment work, verifying an authenticity of said poster;
• (e) providing said purchaser access to said transfer area for the purpose of transferring said digital entertainment work;
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• (d) transferring the specific digital entertainment work onto the user computer in response to a purchaser direction to do so.