INFORMATION REPRODUCING DEVICE, INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such problems that it can not be judged whether the copy of music is prohibited until a copy operation, and that it becomes impossible to copy subsequent music or the copy operation does not resume until copy possible music, when copy prohibited music and copy possible music are mixed in one disk and the copy prohibited music is reproduced on the way because digital copy protection using SCMS information is committed to a recording side and a reproduction side only transmits the SCMS information with music data. SOLUTION: The SCMS information is also acquired and stored at an initial read performed at a power up or at disk insertion. During a copy, only the copy possible music is reproduced based on the SCMS information acquired previously, only the copy possible music is displayed as a target for song selection, and when a user selects copy prohibited music as a material to be copied, the selection is refused, then the purport of copy prohibition is displayed.