Abstract: A content providing technique stores content data 120, sends a program for detecting a drive 35 capable of writing on a removable medium D on a user terminal 30, sends a program for determining whether or not a removable medium D is loaded on the drive 35, sends blocks of content data 120 to the user terminal 30, sends a program for writing blocks of content data 120 successively onto the removable medium D, and stores the sent content data blocks 120 successively onto the removable medium D by the drive 35.