§  73.9006   Add-in covered demodulator products.

   (a) Where a covered demodulator product passes unscreened content or
   marked content to another product, other than where such covered
   demodulator product passes, or directs such content to be passed to an
   output (e.g., where a demodulator add-in card in a personal computer
   passes such content to an associated software application installed in
   the same computer), it shall pass such content:

   (1) Using a robust method; or

   (2) Protected by an authorized digital output protection technology
   authorized for such content in accordance with any applicable
   obligations established as a part of its approval pursuant to § 73.9008.
   Neither unscreened content nor marked content may be so passed in
   unencrypted, compressed form via a User Accessible Bus.

   (b) The requirements of this section shall become applicable on July 1,
   2005.