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AssigneeRecording Industry Association of America
InventorDavid W. Stebbings
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The present invention relates to a method and system for authenticating a media and/or the data stored on the media in order to prevent piracy and/or unauthorized access and/or unauthorized copying of the data stored on the media, including CDs and DVDs. According to the present invention, there are three ways that authentication keys can be formed and remain hidden without being transferred in the audio/video. These three methods are employed using conventional hardware and/or software in CD or DVD players, which may optionally be modified. Each method of producing authentication keys according to the present invention is a function of the physical characteristics of a disc that does not normally travel with the audio or video or graphics data. Authentication systems of the present invention optionally encompass singular, multiple or multi-level authentication systems, each of which successively must be deciphered before the audio/video is finally available, or, alternatively where each key component must be found in order to build the whole key to perform the entire decryption or authentication process.
A method for authenticating at least one of a media and data stored on said media, in order to prevent at least one of piracy, unauthorized access and unauthorized copying of the data stored on said media, wherein said media is modulated via at least one of pit depth, pit width and pit track comprising at least one authentication key or component thereof for authenticating whether at least one of said media and said data is authenticated, said method comprising the steps of:
In a method for authenticating at least one of a media and data stored on said media, in order to prevent at least one of piracy, unauthorized access and unauthorized copying of the data stored on said media, a data disc comprising media that is modulated via at least one of pit depth, pit width and pit track comprising at least one authentication key or component thereof for authenticating whether at least one of said media and said data is authenticated.
In a method for authenticating at least one of a media and data stored on said media, in order to prevent at least one of piracy, unauthorized access and unauthorized copying of the data stored on said media, wherein said media is modulated via at least one of pit depth, pit width and pit track comprising at least one authentication key or component thereof, for authenticating whether the at least one of said media and said data is authenticated, a data player comprising a data processor performing the steps of:
In a method for authenticating at least one of a media and data to be stored on said media, in order to prevent at least one of piracy, unauthorized access and unauthorized copying of the data stored on said media, a data message comprising modulation via at least one of pit depth, pit width and pit track comprising at least one authentication key or component thereof lo for authenticating whether said data message is authenticated, and wherein the modulation of the at least one of the pit depth, pit width and pit track cannot be readily altered, obscured nor removed from said data without simultaneously degrading or impairing a quality of an audible component of said data message, and wherein the data message is transmitted substantially free of the modulation of the at least one of the pit depth, pit width and pit track, thereby preventing a destination processor from reading and subsequently authenticating the data message.
A system for authenticating at least one of a media and data stored on said media, in order to prevent at least one of piracy, unauthorized access and unauthorized copying of the data stored on said media, wherein said media is modulated via at least one of pit depth, pit width and pit track comprising at least one authentication key or component thereof for authenticating whether at least one of said media and said data is authenticated, said system including a data player containing a data processor comprising:
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