Article 168 Bis Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE FIVE. Crimes in matters of communication routes and correspondence · CHAPTER I. Attacks on communication routes and violation of correspondence
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Six months to two years of imprisonment and three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed on whoever, without right:
I.Deciphers or decodes telecommunications signals other than program-carrying satellite signals;
II.Transmits the ownership, use or enjoyment of devices, instruments or information that allow deciphering or decoding telecommunications signals other than program-carrying satellite signals, or
III.Receives or distributes an encrypted program-carrying satellite signal originally encoded, without the authorization of the legal distributor of the signal.