Patent ID: 8214908

Claim:
An electronic musical apparatus comprising: an encrypted musical content receiving device that receives a first encrypted music content packed with a plurality of content materials included therein and distributed by a contents distributing site via a network; an acquiring device that acquires copyright protection information indicative of whether the first encrypted music content received by said encrypted musical content receiving device requires copyright protection; a decoding device that unpacks and decodes the received first encrypted music content to generate a plurality of decoded music contents; and a storage device operable when the copyright protection information acquired by said acquiring device indicates that copyright protection is required, to cause a storage medium to store a second encrypted content generated by re-encrypting the decoded music content generated by said decoding device by an encrypting method different from an encrypting method used to obtain the first encrypted music content and re-packing the plurality of re-encrypted decoded music contents, and operable when the acquired copyright protection information indicates that copyright protection is not required, to cause the storage medium to store the plurality of decoded music contents generated by said decoding device.