Patent ID: 8488945

Claim:
A recording apparatus, calculating a storage space required for recording a new content item and deleting a content item having been recorded in a recording medium so as to record the new content item in a case where a storage space of the recording medium is insufficient, said recording apparatus comprising: a storage section for storing (i) a content attribute database in which the content item having been recorded in the recording medium and attribute information sets of plural attribute items of the content item are associated with each other and (ii) a point database in which plural deletion factors having been set for each attribute item and deletion factor points are associated with each other; point calculating means for extracting attribute information sets for each content item from the content attribute database and extracting deletion factor points associated with deletion factors corresponding to the extracted attribute information sets from the point database so as to calculate evaluation points in accordance with the extracted deletion factor points; and deletion order determination means for determining a deletion order, in which content items having been recorded in the recording medium are deleted, in accordance with the evaluation points having been calculated by the point calculating means, wherein the recording medium includes (a) a secure region for recording license information and (b) a regular region for recording regular data, the license information and the regular data being included in a content item, and the license information is encryption key information for each predetermined recording time of the regular data corresponding to the license information, and each of an in-use space used to record the license information in the secure region and an in-use space used to record the regular data in the regular region is set as the deletion factor.