Techniques for securely delivering media data

A computer-implemented method for securely delivering media data, comprising:

• authenticating a requestor for secure access to media data;
• contacting a service to determine where and how the media data is to be acquired to satisfy the request and masking details of where and how the media data is acquired from the requestor;
• delivering to the requestor a first portion of configuration data for using the media data via secure communication protocols, the first portion includes a licensing key and the licensing key includes a decryption key, the licensing key, which includes the decryption key is used by the requestor to decrypt an encrypted version of the media data for play, and separately delivering to the requestor a second portion of the configuration data via insecure communication protocols, the insecure communication protocols include one or more of the following:
• Real Time Protocol (RTP), Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), the configuration data is logically associated with a single piece of metadata that is delivered as two pieces of metadata in separate transactions as the first portion via the secure communication protocols and the second portion via the insecure communication protocols;
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• delivering the encrypted version of the media data, via the insecure communication protocols, to the requestor and the encrypted version of the media data is unusable without the first portion of the configuration data, and wherein the decryption key is unique to requestor and the media data being requested, and the licensing key is unique to a relationship between the requestor and the media data being requested.