Sec.  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  Sec. 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.