Method for recording/accessing mumber management data and related apparatus
A technique for managing data, numbers, applied in the field of computer programs
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[0044] figure 1 A block diagram of a reproduction device according to the present invention is shown. For reading user data from the disc 1, a reading unit 2 is provided. However, some or all of the user data may be subject to usage restrictions defined within a digital rights management (DRM) system agreed upon by the content provider and consumer. This means that the content stored on disc 1 may be encrypted and must be decrypted before it can be played back by the user. Thus, an encryption key may for example be stored in a specific area on the disc. Furthermore, usage rights can be stored on disc 1, eg indicating whether the user is allowed to copy the content. Such usage rights and keys will be referred to as DRM data hereinafter. For reading such DRM data, a corresponding DRM reading unit 3 is provided. In order to discover access to the DRM data, one or more pointers must be discovered and evaluated by the evaluation unit 4 before the DRM data can actually be read....
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