INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM

摘要

An information processing method which allows a content providing side to regulate the use of a content fitted to the content using side, while protecting the privacy of the content using side. A server device (4) transmits, to a home network system (8), the use mode information which regulates the use modes of the content information depending on a plurality of internal states of the content using side. The home network system (8) determines the use mode of the content information received from a content providing device (2), on the basis of internal state information representing the internal state of the home network system (8) and the use mode information.