Apparatus for managing removable storage media that can be connected thereto, and method, program, and system lsi for managing removable storage media

Abstract

A storage media management apparatus includes a dividing unitthat divides a content into a plurality of content parts, a management information generating unitthat generates a plurality of pieces of content management information in correspondence to the plurality of content parts, each piece of content management information including (a) reconstruction information for reconstructing the content by concatenating a corresponding content part with the other content parts, and (b) individual information for making the corresponding content part individually usable, a content recordingunitthat records each content part together with a corresponding piece of content management information onto a different one of the storage media, and a table editing unitthat judges whether the content is to be concatenated and made usable, or the content parts are to be individually made usable.