Systems and methods for providing access to data. When an application needs to perform an action that requires access to data, the application acquires a "ticket" in order to access the data. While the application holds the ticket, it is given access to the data.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority to and the benefit of commonly assigned U.S. Provisional Application having Ser. No. 60/567,158, filed on Apr. 30, 2004, entitled "CONTENT PROTECTION TICKET SYSTEM AND METHOD," which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.