To provide a packet transmitter apparatus which can transmit contents
protected by a content protection technique such as DTCP or the like,
using packets such as IP packets which have become widespread.The packet
transmitter apparatus includes a transmitting condition setting
management unit (404) which extracts at least one of charge information,
playback control information and copy control information of AV data from
the inputted non-AV data or AV data and generates, based on the extracted
information, encryption mode information indicating an encryption mode
which becomes a condition at the time of transmitting the AV data; an
encrypted data generation unit (406) which generates encrypted data by
encrypting, based on the transmitting condition, the inputted AV data and
adding encryption information headers based on the encryption mode
information to the encrypted AV data; and a packet generation unit (403)
which generates packets by adding packet headers to the generated
encrypted data. The transmitting condition is to be determined as a
combination of input terminal information, data format information and
attribute information.