content or rights they offer for sale the license policy module a 1 6 supplies these terms and conditions to the offers module a 1 10 that uses the information to create offers in addition the license policy module a 1 6 includes policies that govern the approval of content or license transactions depending on the type of information provided by the consumer to verify their ownership of the content or license destroyed signature database a 1 8 is an automated database that records the identifying properties or signature of content and its storage media that has completed the destruction process the destroyed signature database a 1 8 receives data from the content scanning software c 1 3 residing on the consumer operated device c 1 or the remote scanning software a 1 3 residing on the content owner or authorized intermediary data center a 1 the data recorded in a 1 8 is used to provide a record that can used to support auditing of destroyed content to reduce and reduce risk of fraud among other uses data from the destroyed signature database a 1 8 may be used to provide reasonable assurance that one piece of destroyed content is not used to support multiple trade in or sale transactions and that destroyed content remains in the possession of a licensee who offered it in exchange for compensation or trade recommendation.