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Section 605. Unauthorized publication or use of communications
(a) Practices prohibited
Except as authorized by chapter 119, title 18, no person
receiving, assisting in receiving, transmitting, or assisting in
transmitting, any interstate or foreign communication by wire or
radio shall divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance,
purport, effect, or meaning thereof, except through authorized
channels of transmission or reception, (1) to any person other than
the addressee, his agent, or attorney, (2) to a person employed or
authorized to forward such communication to its destination, (3) to
proper accounting or distributing officers of the various
communicating centers over which the communication may be passed,
(4) to the master of a ship under whom he is serving, (5) in
response to a subpena issued by a court of competent jurisdiction,
or (6) on demand of other lawful authority. No person not being
authorized by the sender shall intercept any radio communication
and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport,
effect, or meaning of such intercepted communication to any person.
No person not being entitled thereto shall receive or assist in
receiving any interstate or foreign communication by radio and use
such communication (or any information therein contained) for his
own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto. No
person having received any intercepted radio communication or
having become acquainted with the contents, substance, purport,
effect, or meaning of such communication (or any part thereof)
knowing that such communication was intercepted, shall divulge or
publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or
meaning of such communication (or any part thereof) or use such
communication (or any information therein contained) for his own
benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto. This
section shall not apply to the receiving, divulging, publishing, or
utilizing the contents of any radio communication which is
transmitted by any station for the use of the general public, which
relates to ships, aircraft, vehicles, or persons in distress, or
which is transmitted by an amateur radio station operator or by a
citizens band radio operator.
(b) Exceptions
The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply
to the interception or receipt by any individual, or the assisting
(including the manufacture or sale) of such interception or
receipt, of any satellite cable programming for private viewing if
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(1) the programming involved is not encrypted; and
(2)(A) a marketing system is not established under which -
(i) an agent or agents have been lawfully designated for the
purpose of authorizing private viewing by individuals, and
(ii) such authorization is available to the individual
involved from the appropriate agent or agents; or
(B) a marketing system described in subparagraph (A) is
established and the individuals receiving such programming has
obtained authorization for private viewing under that system.
(c) Scrambling of Public Broadcasting Service programming
No person shall encrypt or continue to encrypt satellite
delivered programs included in the National Program Service of the
Public Broadcasting Service and intended for public viewing by
retransmission by television broadcast stations; except that as
long as at least one unencrypted satellite transmission of any
program subject to this subsection is provided, this subsection
shall not prohibit additional encrypted satellite transmissions of
the same program.
(d) Definitions
For purposes of this section -
(1) the term "satellite cable programming" means video
programming which is transmitted via satellite and which is
primarily intended for the direct receipt by cable operators for
their retransmission to cable subscribers;
(2) the term "agent", with respect to any person, includes an
employee of such person;
(3) the term "encrypt", when used with respect to satellite
cable programming, means to transmit such programming in a form
whereby the aural and visual characteristics (or both) are
modified or altered for the purpose of preventing the
unauthorized receipt of such programming by persons without
authorized equipment which is designed to eliminate the effects
of such modification or alteration;
(4) the term "private viewing" means the viewing for private
use in an individual's dwelling unit by means of equipment, owned
or operated by such individual, capable of receiving satellite
cable programming directly from a satellite;
(5) the term "private financial gain" shall not include the
gain resulting to any individual for the private use in such
individual's dwelling unit of any programming for which the
individual has not obtained authorization for that use; and
(6) the term "any person aggrieved" shall include any person
with proprietary rights in the intercepted communication by wire
or radio, including wholesale or retail distributors of satellite
cable programming, and, in the case of a violation of paragraph
(4) of subsection (e) of this section, shall also include any
person engaged in the lawful manufacture, distribution, or sale
of equipment necessary to authorize or receive satellite cable
programming.
(e) Penalties; civil actions; remedies; attorney's fees and costs;
computation of damages; regulation by State and local authorities
(1) Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) of this
section shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned for not
more than 6 months, or both.
(2) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this section
willfully and for purposes of direct or indirect commercial
advantage or private financial gain shall be fined not more than
$50,000 or imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both, for the
first such conviction and shall be fined not more than $100,000 or
imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, for any subsequent
conviction.
(3)(A) Any person aggrieved by any violation of subsection (a) of
this section or paragraph (4) of this subsection may bring a civil
action in a United States district court or in any other court of
competent jurisdiction.
(B) The court -
(i) may grant temporary and final injunctions on such terms as
it may deem reasonable to prevent or restrain violations of
subsection (a) of this section;
(ii) may award damages as described in subparagraph (C); and
(iii) shall direct the recovery of full costs, including
awarding reasonable attorneys' fees to an aggrieved party who
prevails.
(C)(i) Damages awarded by any court under this section shall be
computed, at the election of the aggrieved party, in accordance
with either of the following subclauses;
(I) the party aggrieved may recover the actual damages suffered
by him as a result of the violation and any profits of the
violator that are attributable to the violation which are not
taken into account in computing the actual damages; in
determining the violator's profits, the party aggrieved shall be
required to prove only the violator's gross revenue, and the
violator shall be required to prove his deductible expenses and
the elements of profit attributable to factors other than the
violation; or
(II) the party aggrieved may recover an award of statutory
damages for each violation of subsection (a) of this section
involved in the action in a sum of not less than $1,000 or more
than $10,000, as the court considers just, and for each violation
of paragraph (4) of this subsection involved in the action an
aggrieved party may recover statutory damages in a sum not less
than $10,000, or more than $100,000, as the court considers just.
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