Patent ID: 8494344

Claim:
A recording and playback apparatus capable of recording and playing back a content downloaded from a server, comprising: a recording medium capable of storing a content with a playback time limit; an instruction receiver configured to receive a playback instruction to start playback of the content or a stop instruction to stop the playback of the content; a playback unit configured to play back the content recorded in the recording medium in accordance with the instruction received by the instruction receiver; and a warning output unit configured to output warning information related to the playback time limit of the content with the playback time limit recorded in the recording medium, wherein the playback unit continues the playback of the content, even after the playback time limit expires during the playback of the content with the playback time limit, and, when the playback of the content is stopped after the playback time limit of the content expires during the playback of the content, does not play back the content if the instruction receiver receives the playback instruction, and the warning output unit outputs the warning information, when the instruction receiver receives the stop instruction after the playback time limit of the content expires during the playback of the content with the playback time limit.