Patent ID: 8391677

Claim:
A non-transitory recording medium, comprising: a digital stream; a plurality of pieces of playback path information, each indicating a playback path for the digital stream; an operation mode object; and a control program instructing a playback device to play the digital stream using the playback path information, wherein the control program is a Java application controlled by the operation mode object, and when instructing the playback device to play the digital stream using at least one of the pieces of playback path information, the control program causes the playback device to acquire a value indicating an age of a user stored in a status register by calling a state acquisition function to use the acquired value as a parameter for parental control, the control program instructs the playback device to check a register-stored value indicating one of a region, and the control program causes the playback device to play the digital stream using the at least one of the pieces of playback path information only if the register-stored value is a predetermined value.