Patent ID: 7194091

Claim:
A content using system in which a content is used on a network to which a plurality of apparatuses are connected, said system comprising: a binding unit that is provided in at least one of the plurality of apparatuses and is operable to bind the content to the network by putting the content in a state where only the apparatuses on the network can use the content; an identification information issuing unit that is provided in at least one of the plurality of apparatuses and is operable to issue identification information uniquely identifying a content to be written onto a storage medium and corresponding to the content that has been bound by said binding unit; a bind removing unit that is provided in at least one of the plurality of apparatuses and is operable to put the content that has been bound by said binding unit in an unbound state; a writing unit that is provided in at least one of the plurality of apparatuses and is operable to write the content that has been put in the unbound state by said bind removing unit onto a storage medium; a table unit that is provided in at least one of the plurality of apparatuses and is operable to store a table indicating the identification information uniquely identifying the content written by said writing unit; and a suppressing unit that is provided in at least one of the plurality of apparatuses and is operable to obtain the identification information uniquely identifying the content to be written by said writing unit and to suppress writing of the content by said writing unit based on a content of the table.