§  73.9000   Definitions.

   (a) Authorized digital output protection technology means a technology
   approved pursuant to the procedures in § 73.9008.

   (b) Authorized recording method means a recording method approved
   pursuant to the procedures in § 73.9008.

   (c) Bona fide reseller means a party regularly engaged, or about to
   become regularly engaged, in the lawful commercial enterprise of
   selling, reselling, manufacturing, or assembling demodulators, or
   products incorporating demodulators, in compliance with this subpart.

   (d) Broadcast flag means the redistribution control descriptor
   (rc_descriptor()) described in ATSC A/65B: “ Standard: Program and
   System Information Protocol for Terrestrial Broadcast and Cable
   (Revision B),” (incorporated by reference, see § 73.8000).

   (e) Computer product means a product that is designed for or permits
   the end user to install a wide variety of commercially available
   software applications thereon, such as a personal computer, handheld
   “Personal Digital Assistant” and the like, and further includes a
   subsystem of such a product, such as a graphics card.

   (f) Covered demodulator product means a product that is required under
   § § 73.9002(a)(1) or 73.9002(b)(1) to comply with the demodulator
   compliance requirements, and to be manufactured in accordance with the
   demodulator robustness requirements.

   (g) Demodulator means a component, or set of components, that is
   designed to perform the function of 8–VSB, 16–VSB, 64–QAM or 256–QAM
   demodulation and thereby produce a data stream for the purpose of
   digital television reception.

   (h) Demodulator compliance requirements means the requirements set out
   in § § 73.9003 through 73.9006.

   (i) Demodulator robustness requirements means the requirements set out
   in § 73.9007.

   (j) Peripheral TSP product means a product that is capable of accessing
   in usable form unscreened content or marked content passed to such
   product via a robust method where the manufacturer of such product has
   committed in writing in accordance with § 73.9002(c) that such product
   will comply with the demodulator compliance requirements and be
   manufactured in accordance with the demodulator robustness
   requirements.

   (k) EIT means Event Information Table as defined in ATSC A/65C: “ATSC
   Program and System Information Protocol for Terrestrial Broadcast and
   Cable, Revision C With Amendment No. 1 dated May 9, 2006,” (January 2,
   2006), (incorporated by reference, see § 73.8000).

   (l) Marked content means, with respect to a Covered demodulator
   product, Unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast content that such
   product has

   (1) Received and demodulated and for which such product has inspected
   either the EIT or PMT and determined the broadcast flag to be present,
   or

   (2) Where such product is a peripheral TSP product, received via a
   robust method and accessed in usable form, and for which such product
   either inspected the EIT or PMT and determined the broadcast flag to be
   present or determined through information robustly conveyed with such
   content that another covered demodulator product had previously so
   screened such content and determined the broadcast flag to be present;
   provided, however, that, with respect to a covered demodulator product,
   marked content shall not include content that has been passed from such
   product pursuant to § § 73.9004(a)(1), 73.9004(a)(2), 73.9004(a)(3),
   73.9004(a)(5), 73.9004(a)(6), or 73.9006(b).

   (m) PMT means program map table as defined in International Standard
   ISO/IEC 13818–1:2000(E): “Information Technology—Generic Coding of
   Moving Pictures and Associated Audio Information: Systems”
   (incorporated by reference, see § 73.8000).

   (n) Robust method means, with respect to the passing of unscreened
   content or marked content from one product to another, a content
   protection method that complies with § 73.9007.

   (o) Transitory image means data that has been stored temporarily for
   the sole purpose of enabling a function not prohibited by this subpart
   but that (1) does not persist materially after such function has been
   performed and (2) is not stored in a way that permits copying or
   storing of such data for other purposes.

   (p) Unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast content means audiovisual
   content contained in the signal broadcast by a digital television
   station without encrypting or otherwise making the content available
   through a technical means of conditional access, and includes such
   content when retransmitted in unencrypted digital form.

   (q) Unscreened content means, with respect to a covered demodulator
   product, unencrypted digital terrestrial broadcast content that such
   product either:

   (1) Received and demodulated and for which such product has inspected
   neither the EIT nor the PMT for the broadcast flag; or

   (2) Where such product is a peripheral TSP product, received via a
   robust method and accessed in usable form, and for which such product
   has inspected neither the EIT nor the PMT for the broadcast flag and
   has not determined through information robustly conveyed with such
   content another covered demodulator product had previously so screened
   such content and determined the broadcast flag to be present; provided,
   however, that, with respect to a covered demodulator product,
   unscreened content shall not include content that has been passed from
   such product pursuant to § § 73.9003(a)(1), 73.9003(a)(2), 73.9003(a)(3),
   73.9003(a)(4), 73.9003(a)(6), 73.9003(a)(7), or 73.9006(b).

   (r) User accessible bus means a data bus that is designed for end user
   upgrades or access, such as an implementation of a smartcard interface,
   PCMCIA, Cardbus, or PCI that has standard sockets or otherwise readily
   facilitates end user access. A user accessible bus does not include
   memory buses, CPU buses, or similar portions of a device's internal
   architecture that do not permit access to content in a form usable by
   end users.

   [ 68 FR 67603 , Dec. 3, 2003, as amended at  73 FR 5685 , Jan. 30, 2008]