FIELD: information technology and communication.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the information technology and communication section, namely, the delivery of video content to users in a data network. Procedure of distribution of media content in the data transmission network, in which the original content file is split into segments at server side, set of possible presentations for each of the segments is generated by creating at least one copy of each segment, and inserting a digital identifier into each of the copies of each segment, receiving a request from the user device for providing the content, creating, in response to the user device request, a download indicator of content containing information about each content segment as a segment key, transmitting said download indicator to the user device, transmitting to said user equipment information about the addresses of the sources comprising the segments of the requested content, on the user device side, the receiving pointer is received, searching for at least one source comprising at least one content segment according to the received download indicator, and initiating a communication session with the at least one source, obtaining at least one said content segment in the case of a successful communication session and matching the keys, otherwise repeating the search step, of at least one source device, the key of the obtained segment is checked for matching.
EFFECT: technical result is to improve the protection against the illegal distribution of content in the data transmission network.
16 cl, 12 dwg
