Article 426 Federal Criminal Code

Imprisonment of six months to four years and from three hundred to three thousand days fine shall be imposed in the following cases:

I.On anyone who manufactures, modifies, imports, distributes, sells or rents a device or system to decode an encrypted satellite signal carrying programs, without authorization of the legitimate distributor of said signal;

II.On anyone who carries out for profit any act with the purpose of decoding an encrypted satellite signal carrying programs, without authorization of the legitimate distributor of said signal;

III.On anyone who manufactures or distributes equipment destined to the reception of an encrypted cable signal carrying programs, without authorization of the legitimate distributor of said signal, or

IV.On anyone who receives or assists another to receive an encrypted cable signal carrying programs without the authorization of the legitimate distributor of said signal.