Computer software and electronic apparatus for encoding physical and electronic media objects, namely magazines and newspapers, advertising, product packaging, direct mailings, tickets, coupons, catalogs, annual reports, logos, brochures, business cards, still images, financial instruments, currency, stock certificates, identity documents such as passports and drivers licenses, with hidden digital information, and for decoding such hidden digital information from such media objects; electronic media objects with hidden digital information encoded therein, namely, still images, computer software used to link computers from such physical and electronic media objects based on the digital information hidden therein; computer software and electronic apparatus for monitoring traffic to internet sites; computer software and electronic apparatus for cataloguing, indexing, marketing and licensing images containing hidden digital information; and computer software for preventing use of personal computers for counterfeiting and piracy

Electronically linking two or more computer sites together based on information steganographically encoded within physical and electronic media objects; electronic transmission of data and documents containing hidden digital information via computer terminals using physical and electronic media objects as the hidden digital information carrier, and utilizing hidden digital information in communicating ownership of such physical and electronic media objects using the Internet

Online information services, namely, using hidden digital codes to provide web site links between computer sites; technical support services, namely troubleshooting and resolution of computer hardware and software problems via telephone, e-mail, postings on global computer networks and in person; consulting services in the fields of cryptography and steganography including encoding and decoding hidden information; security services, namely, encoding of physical and electronic media objects to hide digital information therein, and to decode such information therefrom; graphic design services in the field of including hidden digital information into electronic media containing graphic designs; computer services, namely, custom programming services for others in the field of hidden digital codes in electronic media; and security consultancy services