Apparatus to be used in connection with the protection of digital information, namely, television receivers, power cables, computer cables, coaxial cables, terrestrial and satellite audio, video and data broadcast receivers and signal processors, communications hubs, modems, communications servers, personal computers, computer hard-disk drives, audiotape players and recorders for use in creating and playing digital copy protected media, videotape players and recorders for use in creating and playing digital copy protected media, optical disc players and recorders for use in creating and playing digital copy protected media, DVD and compact disc players and recorders for use in creating and playing digital copy protected media, digital audio and video recorders for use in creating and playing digital copy protected media; video game players for use with televisions and video game software equipped with digital copy protection circuitry; integrated circuits; encoded smart cards and modules comprising printed circuits containing programming used to encode and decode electronic and digital data and audio/video content

Electronic, electric, and digital transmission of voice, data, images, signals, and messages featuring encryption and decryption of audio and/or video data or of any other electronic or digital data protected by encoding and decoding systems be controllable by the use of smart cards with memory and/or microprocessors

Data encryption services for the coding and/or the decoding of audio and/or video data or of any other electronic or digital data protected by encoding and decoding systems controllable by the use of smart cards with memory and/or microprocessors