The data recording and reproducing method under the domain management system

The data recording and reproducing method under the domain management system is provided. Image recording process according to the invention extracts the copy control information content indicating the copy possible extent within the domain management information and domain that represents information about the domain and content in a recording command of a host, and stores the extracted domain management information limited to recording on the medium, based on the extracted copy control information, and allow the devices to play back content generates a domain limited flag to perform a procedure for checking whether the playback device to a domain in the predetermined area, and generating a domain It is carried out by recording the flag and the contents in the storage medium. According to the present invention, while maintaining it impossible to play a limited domain can be from a different domain can be stored in the external storage device of the slave device under the management domain.