Personal casting system

Abstract

A profit redistribution device, profit redistribution method, program storage medium, profit redistribution system, content providing device, content providing method, program storage media, and content providing system are disclosed. Profit redistribution processing is performed according to the accumulated points proportionate to the number of times the content with a commercial video is provided to a client PC. Thus, a fair profit redistribution can be easily performed. A preset content with a commercial video is provided to a user when requested from the client PC, and it is possible to provide advertisement information without the user being aware of the commercial.

1 . A content providing apparatus, comprising:
 a receiver configured to receive authentication information from a first information processing device identifying a user of the first information processing device;   an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user of the first information device based on the authentication information if the user of the first information device is a registered user;   a control unit configured to control the receiver to receive content supplied from the first information processing device and a channel name provided with the content if the authentication unit authenticates the user of the first information device; and   a providing unit configured to provide the content received by the receiver to a second information processing device over a network in response to a selection of the channel name related to the content from said second information processing device received over network.