Patent ID: 7810161

Claim:
A method for moving contents, the method being performed by a device including a receiving unit, a user interface, an analyzing unit, an interface and a control unit, the method comprising: receiving, via the receiving unit, a content; storing the content in a storage; receiving, via the user interface, a request for moving the content; judging, via the analyzing unit, whether or not the content is permitted to be moved to an external storage based on a moving control information, the moving control information being different from a copy control information indicating whether the copy of the content is permitted; determining, via the analyzing unit, whether a communication with the external storage through an interfacing port is possible; and controlling, via the control unit, a moving operation of the content to the external storage such that the content is moved to the external storage through the interfacing port, when the judging step determined the content is permitted to be moved and the determining step determines the communication is possible.