Method and apparatus for protecting copyright of digital recording medium and copyright protected digital recording medium

• US 6,694,023 B1
• Filed: 12/29/1998
• Issued: 02/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Byung-Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Barrón, Gilberto
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Application Number:
  US09/222,317
• Time in Patent Office: 1,876 Days
• Field of Search: 713/194, 713/193, 713/151, 713/165, 713/167, 380/203, 380/201-202, 380/210
• US Class Current: 380/203
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00181 using a content identifier, e.g. an international standard recording code [ISRC] or a digital object identifier [DOI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0021 involving encryption or decryption of contents recorded on or reproduced from a record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00268 said barcode being recorded in a burst cutting area [BCA]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00449 content scrambling system [CSS]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00492 wherein content or user data is encrypted
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00579 said format change concerning the data encoding, e.g., modulation schemes violating run-length constraints, causing excessive DC content, or involving uncommon codewords or sync patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0092 involving measures which are linked to media defects or read/write errors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8355 involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

Abstract

A digital recording medium for protecting a copyright includes a data recording region on at least a part of which information encrypted using a cryptosystem is recorded, and a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key for decryption of the encrypted information recorded on the data recording region is recorded. When the digital recording medium is copied illegally, table identification information recorded thereon will be damaged. Thus, the information recorded on a recording medium obtained by illegally copying the digital recording medium cannot be reproduced normally. A playback apparatus for the digital recording medium includes a memory for storing the cryptosystem, a reader for reading data recorded on the digital recording medium, and a decrypter for decrypting the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium, based on the cypher key read from the digital recording medium by the reader.

Claims

1. A copyright protection method to protect a copyright with respect to information to be recorded on a digital recording medium, the copyright protection method comprising:

encrypting the information to be recorded on the digital recording medium using a cryptosystem of a plurality of cryptosystems;

recording the information encrypted on the digital recording medium; and

recording a cypher key to differentiate the cryptosystem, among the plurality of cryptosystems, as the cryptosystem used to encrypt the encrypted information, such that the encrypted information can be decrypted by using the cryptosystem, not stored on the digital recording medium, after identification by the cypher key, with the cypher key being recorded so that the cypher key is not allowed to be copied,

wherein said digital recording medium is an optical disk and said cypher key is recorded on a burst cutting area (BCA) of the optical disk.

3. The copyright protection method according to claim 1, wherein said optical disk is a digital versatile disk (DVD) and said cryptosystem is a content scramble system.

4. The copyright protection method according to claim 1, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-ROM.

5. The copyright protection method according to claim 1, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-RAM.

6. The copyright protection method according to claim 1, wherein said optical disk is a hybrid DVD comprising a RAM area and a ROM area as information storage areas.

27. The copyright protection method according to claim 1, wherein the BCA has a BCA data field on which the information is to be recorded, and the cypher key is recorded on an undefined portion of the BCA data field.

2. A copyright protection method to protect a copyright with respect to information to be recorded on a digital recording medium, the copyright protection method comprising:

encrypting the information to be recorded on the digital recording medium using a cryptosystem;

recording the information encrypted on the digital recording medium; and

recording a cypher key to decrypt the information encrypted on the digital recording medium so that the cypher key is not allowed to be copied,

wherein said digital recording medium is an optical disk and said cypher key is recorded only in a BCA preamble of a burst cutting area (BCA) of the optical disk.

30. The copyright protection method according to claim 2, wherein said optical disk is a digital versatile disk (DVD) and said cryptosystem is a content scramble system.

31. The copyright protection method according to claim 2, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-ROM.

32. The copyright protection method according to claim 2, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-RAM.

33. The copyright protection method according to claim 2, wherein said optical disk is a hybrid DVD comprising a RAM area and a ROM area as information storage areas.

7. A copyright protection method to protect a copyright with respect to information to be recorded on a digital recording medium, the copyright protection method comprising:

encrypting the information to be recorded on the digital recording medium using a stored cryptosystem, of a plurality of cryptosystems, with the cryptosystem not being recorded on the recording medium;

recording the information encrypted on the digital recording medium;

recording a cypher key to decrypt the information encrypted on the digital recording medium so that the cypher key is not allowed to be copied, with the cypher key differentiating the cryptosystem, among the plurality of cryptosystems, as the cryptosystem used to encrypt the encrypted information;

reading the cypher key from the digital recording medium; and

decrypting the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium using the cypher key read and the cryptosystem.

8. A copyright protection method to protect a copyright with respect to information to be recorded on a digital recording medium, the copyright protection method comprising:

encrypting the information to be recorded on the digital recording medium using a cryptosystem;

recording the information encrypted on the digital recording medium; and

recording a cypher key to decrypt the information encrypted on the digital recording medium so that the cypher key is not allowed to be copied,

wherein said cryptosystem is a modulation method to modulate the information to be recorded using a varied table whose relationship between symbols and codes are varied from a predetermined table, and table identification information representative of the varied table is used as the cypher key.

9. The copyright protection method according to claim 8, wherein said predetermined table is an eight-to-fourteen modulation plus (EFM+) table, the varied table is a varied EFM+ table and the digital recording medium is a DVD.

10. The copyright protection method according to claim 9, wherein said table identification information is a data symbol value in the predetermined EFM+ table corresponding to a data symbol value “

0”

in the varied EFM+ table.

11. A digital recording medium, comprising:

a data recording region, wherein at least a part of information is encrypted using a cryptosystem and recorded in a user/data area of the data recording region; and

a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key to decrypt the encrypted information recorded on the data recording region is recorded,

wherein said digital recording medium is an optical disk and which comprises a preamble, of a burst cutting area (BCA), with the cypher key being recorded only in the preamble.

12. The digital recording medium according to claim 11, wherein said optical disk is a digital versatile disk (DVD) and said cryptosystem is a content scramble system.

13. The digital recording medium according to claim 11, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-ROM.

14. The digital recording medium according to claim 11, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-RAM.

15. The digital recording medium according to claim 11, wherein said optical disk is a hybrid DVD comprising a RAM area and a ROM area as information storage areas.

16. A digital recording medium, comprising:

a data recording region, wherein at least a part of information is encrypted using a cryptosystem and recorded in a user/data area of the data recording region; and

a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key to decrypt the encrypted information recorded on the data recording region is recorded,

wherein said cryptosystem is a modulation method to modulate the information to be recorded using a varied table whose relationship between symbols and codes are varied from a predetermined table, and the cypher key is table identification information representative of the varied table.

17. The digital recording medium according to claim 16, wherein said predetermined table is an eight-to-fourteen modulation plus (EFM+) table, the varied table is a varied EFM+ table and the digital recording medium is a DVD.

18. The digital recording medium according to claim 17, wherein said table identification information is a data symbol value in the predetermined EFM+ table corresponding to a data symbol value “

0”

in the varied EFM+ table.

28. The digital recording medium according to claim 16, wherein the BCA has a BCA data field on which the information is to be recorded, and the cypher key is recorded on an undefined portion of the BCA data field.

29. The digital recording medium according to claim 17, wherein the data recording region comprises:

a data area on which the information encrypted using the cryptosystem is modulated using the varied EFM+ table and recorded; and

a lead-in area on which other information is modulated using the EFM+ table and recorded.

19. A playback apparatus for a digital recording medium including a data recording region, wherein at least a part of information is encrypted using a cryptosystem, of a plurality of cryptosystems, and recorded in a user/data area of the data recording region, and a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key to decrypt the encrypted information recorded on the data recording region is recorded, the playback apparatus comprising:

a memory to store the plurality of cryptosystems prior to a reading of the digital recording medium;

a reader to read the encrypted information and cypher key recorded on the digital recording medium; and

a decrypter to decrypt the encrypted information, recorded on the digital recording medium and read by the reader, using the cryptosystem, with the cypher key differentiating the cryptosystem, among the plurality of cryptosystems, as the cryptosystem used to encrypt the encrypted information.

20. A digital recording and/or reproducing system, comprising:

a digital recording medium including a data recording region, wherein at least a part of information is encrypted using a cryptosystem, of a plurality of cryptosystems, and recorded in a user/data area of the data recording region, and a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key necessary to decrypt the encrypted information is recorded, with the cypher key differentiating the cryptosystem, among the plurality of cryptosystems, as the cryptosystem that was used to encrypt the encrypted information;

a memory to store the plurality of cryptosystems prior to a reading of the digital recording medium;

a reader to read the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium; and

a decrypter to decrypt the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium and read by the reader, based on the cypher key read by the reader.

21. A digital recording and/or reproducing system, comprising:

a digital recording medium including a data recording region, wherein at least a part of information is encrypted using a cryptosystem, of a plurality of cryptosystems, and recorded in a user/data area of the data recording region, and a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key necessary to decrypt the encrypted information is recorded;

a memory to store the plurality of cryptosystems;

a reader to read the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium; and

a decrypter to decrypt the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium and read by the reader, using the cryptosystem stored in the memory based on a differentiation of the cryptosystem, among the plurality of cryptosystems, by the cypher key as being the cryptosystem used to encrypt the encrypted information,

wherein said digital recording medium is an optical disk which comprises a burst cutting area (BCA) on which said cypher key is recorded.

23. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said optical disk is a digital versatile disk (DVD) and said cryptosystem is a content scramble system.

24. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-ROM.

25. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-RAM.

26. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said optical disk is a hybrid DVD comprising a RAM area and a ROM area as information storage areas.

22. A digital recording and/or reproducing system, comprising:

a digital recording medium including a data recording region, wherein at least a part of information is encrypted using a cryptosystem and recorded in a user/data area of the data recording region, and a copy disapproval region on which a cypher key necessary to decrypt the encrypted information is recorded;

a memory to store the cryptosystems;

a reader to read the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium; and

a decrypter to decrypt the encrypted information recorded on the digital recording medium and read by the reader, based on the cypher key read by the reader,

wherein said digital recording medium is an optical disk which comprises a burst cutting area (BCA), with a BCA preamble on which said cypher key is recorded.

34. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein said optical disk is a digital versatile disk (DVD) and said cryptosystem is a content scramble system.

35. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-ROM.

36. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein said optical disk is a DVD-RAM.

37. The digital recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein said optical disk is a hybrid DVD comprising a RAM area and a ROM area as information storage areas.