Patent ID: 8154622

Claim:
A content recording apparatus, comprising: a capturer which captures a content; a recorder which records the content captured by said capturer in a recording medium; a management table which holds attribute information of the content recorded in said recording medium; a connector which connects with a host device performing a content acquiring operation on the basis of said management table; a selector which selects any one of a first mode allowing a capturing operation by said capturer in a state that a connection by said connector is established and a second mode prohibiting said capturer from performing a capturing operation in a state that a connection by said connector is established; a suppresser which suppresses at least a portion of the attribute information held by said management table when said first mode is selected and which does not suppress said portion of the attribute information held in said management table when said second mode is selected; and a describer which describes the attribute information of the content captured by said capturer in said first mode in said management table.