Patent ID: 8752209
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a memory unit for storing digital broadcast content for which a number of copies that can be made is set; a writing unit for writing the content stored in the memory unit on an external recording medium; an IC medium reader/writer for reading an IC medium and recording the number of copies that can be made of the content stored in the memory unit on the IC medium in association with an identifier of the content, wherein the IC medium is separate from the memory unit and the external recording medium; and a controller for determining whether an the identifier of the content stored in the memory unit is recorded on the IC medium when the content is copied to the external recording medium and, when it is determined that the identifier of the content is recorded on the IC medium, controlling the writing unit to write the content on the external recording medium in accordance with the number of copies that can be made recorded in association with the identifier of the content, as well as controlling the IC medium reader/writer to update the number of copies that can be made of the content.