A system and method for providing traceable acknowledgement of a digital
data distribution license is presented. A license specifying terms
applicable to a user requesting a distribution of data maintained in
digital form is defined. The digital data distribution is encoded by
application of a phrase used to convolute the digital data distribution.
The phrase signifies an acknowledgement by the user to be bound by the
license terms. The digital data is distributed. Access to the digital
data distribution requires application of the phrase to deconvolute the
digital data distribution.