A distribution method of a content appropriately collects and supplies usage fees of contents when transmitting/receiving contents between terminal devices on an ad-hoc network. When transmitting/receiving contents between terminal devices, processing of reducing fee information of a content from outstanding amount information stored in a storage medium of the terminal device is performed when receiving the content from another terminal device. At the time of transmitting a content to another terminal device, a virtual outstanding amount information is acquired by subtracting transmit restricting information associated with the transmission of the content from the outstanding amount stored in the storage medium. When the virtual outstanding amount reaches to a predetermined value, transmission of a content to other terminal devices is restricted.