... of a new way to buy, sell, and distribute e-books, audiobooks, videos, and digital music in good faith...
... with never-before-seen patent-pending benefits and features Amazon and Kindle don't have. Won't have. Can't have, ever. Same for their competitors. Until now, of course, though just for the one with vision.
A little birdie might have told you that this new technology is right over the horizon. With intelligence that isn't artificial - it's baked in. Or that it saves money for readers, listeners, and watchers of digital media, and gives them more choices.
Maybe you've heard the whispers that this new invention respects writers, artists, and other content providers and producers, too - better, more reliable royalties, new income streams, and exclusive control over their work.
Or how it's good for honest vendors, giving them fresh ways to compete against monopolies, increase revenues, generate more traffic, and provide profitable new services.
Too good to be true?
I recently filed the provisional patent application, the first of many USPTO utility patent applications to follow. Common sense and patent office rules prevent me from telling you how I accomplished this feat (I've solved big problems like this before - click here and also here), and I can't yet share everything the new technology can do. The article below reveals what I can tell you.
Bottom line? As things stood before today, taking away large numbers of Amazon's creators and a big chunk of their business wasn't something a reasonable person would have considered plausible.
But once you understand what DRRMS is and what it can do, you'll realize that it renders Amazon vulnerable in many ways; successfully taking them on becomes not just conceivable, but doable in the right hands. DRRMS is the perfect foundation for eventually making Amazon a footnote, even irrelevant, to digital publishing.
[Are you an accomplished entrepreneur, or an established competitor to Amazon? Would you like to see the DRRMS provisional patent app and learn more about the invention(s)? If so, please download, complete, and send me the non-disclosure and partial non-compete agreement from the link below.]
DRRMS non-disclosure and partial non-compete agreement
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By F. Scott Deaver — Inventor of the Digital Rights Resale Management System (DRRMS)
Patent Pending, Filed October 6 2025
For almost three decades, we’ve been told that buying an e-book, song, or video means “owning” it. But try to give that purchase to a friend, sell it used, or transfer it to your heirs, and the illusion shatters. Digital ownership today is ownership in name only.
The problem isn’t that artists and authors want more control; it’s that the platforms took it all. They locked down resale to protect their revenue, not ours, and in the process turned creative property into perpetual rental. Writers lose royalties, readers lose rights, and more forthright competitors lose advantage as devious corporations grow richer by leveraging the inequities.
What if resale were legal, secure, and fair — and every new owner automatically paid the creator their rightful royalty?
That’s the core of my invention: the Digital Rights Resale Management System, or DRRMS. It’s not a subscription, not a blockchain token, not another walled garden. It’s an architecture for digital fairness — a way to let encrypted works change hands without creating illegal copies and without leaving the creator unpaid.
In DRRMS, an e-book, song, audiobook, video, or any digital work is encrypted once. Ownership lives in a license, not the file. When you sell it, the system transfers that license, revokes your access, issues a new key to the buyer, and pays the author their royalty — automatically. Every legitimate owner pays for their own copy, once. No one pays twice. If anyone gets it free, it's because both author and vendor signed off on a case-by-case basis.
This stops vendors from giving away authors' books to promote the vendor's subscriptions (for which the vendor pockets most of the money first). It also ends the practice of vendors renting out individual pages from an author's book through hijacking ads meant to sell complete books, then paying the writer a tiny fraction of what they should have earned in royalties.
At the same time, readers can still realize the same or even better discounts when they purchase the digital version of the book, because they can recoup much of the purchase price by re-selling the book after they've read it.
A principled vendor comes out ahead, too, because they can profit from the services related to resale and the increased traffic flow from the added resale revenue stream, one which simply didn't exist before DRRMS.
Honest. Fair. A win-win for everyone.
The result is an ecosystem where digital property behaves like real property — it can be bought, owned, and resold — but creators never lose the trail of compensation.
Markets for e-books, audiobooks, streaming music, and video together exceed $200 billion a year. Yet not one of the major distributors allows resale. Consumers are frustrated, authors are underpaid, and the technology to fix both now exists. And all it took was skill and care in designing the system for fairness instead of monopolistic control.
The provisional patent for DRRMS was filed on October 6 2025, establishing the intellectual-property foundation for this change. The next step is collaboration — with developers, publishers, investors, entrepreneurs, and rights organizations willing to move digital media beyond the rental era.
Technology should amplify creativity, not imprison it. The Digital Rights Resale Management System is my solution for giving creators and consumers back something that the digital age quietly took away: true ownership.
