Patent ID: 8218944

Claim:
A recording and reproduction device comprising: a recording unit including a processor operable to record content onto a first recording medium; an output unit including a processor operable to output related content onto a second recording medium, the related content including details identical to details of the content recorded onto the first recording medium; a unique information obtaining unit including a processor operable to obtain unique information of the second recording medium; a first state changing unit including a processor operable to change a state of the content recorded onto the first recording medium into a state in which the content cannot be played back from the first recording medium unless the unique information is obtained from the second recording medium, by using the unique information of the second recording medium, said first changing unit changing the state when said output unit outputs the related content onto the second recording medium; and a reproduction processing unit including a processor operable to playback, from the first recording medium, the content changed into the state in which the content cannot be played back from the first recording medium unless the unique information is obtained from the second recording medium, said reproduction unit playing back the content having the changed state only when said unique information obtaining unit obtains the unique information of the second recording medium after said first state changing unit has changed the state of the content recorded onto the first recording medium into the state in which the content cannot be played back from the first recording medium unless the unique information is obtained from the second recording medium, wherein the recording and reproduction device further includes a determination unit including a processor operable to determine whether or not the related content has been recorded onto the second recording medium, wherein said unique information obtaining unit is operable to obtain the unique information of the second recording medium when said determination unit determines that the related content has been recorded onto the second recording medium, after said first state changing unit has changed the state of the content recorded onto the first recording medium, wherein said output unit is operable to output information regarding unique information of said recording and reproduction device, when said output unit outputs the related content onto the second recording medium, such that the related content and the information regarding the unique information of said recording and reproduction device are recorded onto the second recording medium, and wherein said determination unit is operable to determine that the related content has been recorded onto the second recording medium, when the information regarding the unique information of said recording and reproduction device is recorded onto the second recording medium.