An optical disc management system includes: a BCA code recording device manufacturing company (10) which issues a unique serial ID (a) for each BCA code recording device (31) and reports the serial ID (a) to a license managing organization (20); the license managing organization (20) which issues a BCA facility key (b) according to the serial ID (a) from the manufacturing company (10), sends it to an optical disc manufacturing company (30), and transmits an authentication key (d) generated according to the BCA facility key (b) and a medium key (c) issued for each title, to an optical disc reproducing device (70); and the optical disc manufacturing company (30) which generates a special encryption key (e) according to the medium key (c) received from the license managing organization (20) and the issued serial ID (a) and records the special encryption key (e) together with the BCA code in a predetermined area of the BCA code on an optical disc. Only when the special encryption key (e) and the authentication key (d) are in a predetermined relationship, reproduction of the optical disc by the optical disc reproducing device (70) is enabled.
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