Techniques for distributing network provider digital content to customer premises nodes

One or more computer readable storage media encoded with software comprising computer executable instructions and when the software is executed operable to:

• receive unsolicited content from a digital content provider comprising release data, the release data indicating that content is to be broadcast, multicast or unicast at a particular time;
• store digital content provider data in non-volatile storage based on the unsolicited content on a first customer premises node wherein the customer premises node is not authorized to delete the provider data;
• determine whether conditions are satisfied to release the digital content for sending the provider digital content data to a second customer premises node;
• in response to determining that the conditions are satisfied for sending the provider digital content data:
• retrieve the provider data from the non-volatile storage, wherein the provider data is encrypted;
• and send the provider data to the second customer premises node;
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• distribute a decryption key to the second customer premises node at the particular time.