METHOD FOR LIMITTING PROGRAM COPY IN DIGITAL DIRECT BROADCASTING SATELLITE RECEIVER

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for a receiver to store (or copy) a digital DB (DBS) receiving system broadcast program to a digital storage medium. To solve this problem, the satellite broadcast program is stored in a stream packet unit by channel decoding and descrambler. In the program-specific copy authority granting method of DBS which converts the converted data into the data and detects the fee information from the packetized data, and transmits and receives the fee information to the subscriber station management system. Receiving the charge data for the copy right 201, accumulating the charges for the copy rights of the pay-TV program in step 201, the accumulated charge and the preset maximum cumulative charge (TH) is compared Step 203, if the accumulated charge is less than the maximum accumulated charge TH, to record and store the received stream packetized data. If the charge accumulated by the step 204, step 203 is greater than the maximum cumulative charge, the step of stopping the copy of the paid broadcast program provided to the subscriber from the subscriber station management system (205), the subscriber is paid By setting the copy authority for the broadcast program in advance, there is an effect that it is possible to record and watch the paid program.