and the re sequencing module 115 a remove the temporal continuity of the underlying audio video information in a manner that renders the audio video information unusable or at least unenjoyable to a pirate or unauthorized subscriber the information stream encryption module 135 scrambles the re sequenced compressed and segmented information stream using one or more known scrambling techniques additionally the index table produced by re sequencing module 130 is coupled to another encryption module 140 where it is encrypted in one of a number of known manners to produce an encrypted index table the encrypted information stream i e the scrambled re sequenced compressed and segmented information stream and the encrypted index table are coupled to information consumer or subscriber side equipment via e g distribution network 145 a and or alternate distribution network 145 b the optional first 122 second 124 and third 126 local storage module 126 are used to store respectively the output of segmentation module 110 a or compression module 115 b the output of compression module 115 a or segmentation module 110 b and the output of re sequencing module 130 the local storage modules may be used to e g store such information for further processing by additional processing devices not shown or to allow processing of an entire information stream at each step e g perform all segmentation of a received input information stream in then perform all compression of the segmented information stream then perform all re sequencing of the compressed and segmented information stream etc optionally the server side equipment may be used as a temporary buffer during a u201c one pass u201d processing of an input.