CmStick/BMC represents the heart of the CodeMeter Digital Rights Management system in a USB device form factor with a noble and robust metal case. It contains a smart card chip with a secure memory of about 328 kbyte, which is available for storing thousands of licenses; the additional flash memory, coming in different capacities, can be configured as a removable disk or a private, encrypted disk or a CD-ROM partition or a secure, encrypted disk with CodeMeter API read and write control.