Patent ID: 8423593

Claim:
A contents storage server, comprising: a contents storage unit that receives contents and information about the planned distribution quantity to be allocated to the content storage server that is determined based on the total distribution quantity of the contents to be reproduced at reproduction terminals from a contents distribution server distributing the contents to a plurality of contents storage servers, stores the contents in a contents storage, and records the information about the planned distribution quantity in a control information memory; a reproduction quantity recording unit that records in a control information memory contents control information, wherein the contents control information is information about the reproduction quantity of the contents reproduction at the reproduction terminals that have received the contents and the information about planned distribution quantity; and a contents transmission unit that transmits the contents to each one of the reproduction terminals until the reproduced quantity at the reproduction terminals reaches the reproduction quantity indicated by the information about planned distribution, wherein the planned distribution quantity allocated to the contents storage server is one of multiple planned distribution quantities determined for allocating the total distribution quantity of the contents to each of the plurality of contents storage servers.