Electronic system for the protection and control of license transactions associated with the alteration of replicated read only media and its bound licensed content

A method for supporting a controlled transaction associated with content stored on replicated, read only, optical media comprising

• electronically identifying content stored on an original industry standard replicated physical optical storage medium;
• electronically determining if an owner or authorized intermediary of the identified content has authorized the content for a transaction;
• electronically inspecting the physical medium and identified content to confirm it is an original replicated read only optical media product and not a copy;
• electronically inspecting the original physical medium to detect the presence of transaction flag(s) on the medium;
• electronically retrieving at least one policy governing the transaction including a pattern of media alterations, the number of media alterations, and location of media alterations to be placed onto the physical medium;
• if required by the at least one policy, automatically disabling by placing medium alterations into specific locations of the original physical medium that disable content stored on the original physical medium comprising irreversibly obliterating at least part of a data portion of the original physical medium, thereby disabling content stored on the original physical medium;
• automatically, electronically verifying the content has been disabled;
• confirming that the disabled content is associated with the original physical medium, and
• based on electronic verification and confirmation that at least a portion of the content stored on the disc has been disabled, electronically engaging in a transaction associated with the content stored on the original, physical, optical storage medium from the owner of the identified content or an authorized intermediary thereof.