Method for integrating games with digital media

A method for integrating game products with sale and dissemination of digital media to players, comprising:

• providing for players to purchase digital media for download at a purchase price;
• the purchase price entering the player into a game wherein the digital media Purchased and downloaded to the player determines whether or not the player has won in the game;
• maintaining a library of the digital media from which the digital media purchased and downloaded to the player are obtained, each of the digital media in the library having an identical visual or audio original commercial format corresponding to a publicly available song or video that is unrelated to play of the game and separately commercially available to the players and to non-players of the game;
• modifying a defined number of the digital media in the library to have an auditory or visual indication of a winning game play placed in the original commercial format of the digital media, wherein a winning status is revealed by visual or audio playback of the digital media;
• wherein players download and listen to or view the digital media to determine if they have purchased a winning version of the digital media from the library of the digital media;
• wherein the digital media downloaded to the player is randomly selected from the library of the digital media;
• wherein a winning outcome of the digital media is predetermined and contained in the digital media before players are provided individual ones of the digital media;
• wherein losing versions of the digital media in the library are not modified from their original commercial format such that layers losing in the game are provided the digital media in its original commercial format;
• and
• wherein, in the digital media that are modified, the original commercial format of the digital media is altered to contain the auditory or visual indication of the winning game play.