Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Any advertisement or instructions for use relating to a means enabling the removal or neutralisation of any technical device protecting software, which does not include a statement in conspicuous characters that the unlawful use of such means is punishable by the penalties laid down for infringement, shall be punishable by the penalties laid down for third-class offences.

1° Holding for personal use or using a technological application, device or component designed or specially adapted to undermine an effective technical measure mentioned in article L. 331-5 of this Code which protects a work, a performance, a phonogram, a videogram, a programme or a database; 2° To use a service designed or specially adapted to cause the infringement referred to in the previous paragraph. These provisions do not apply…

The following is punishable by the fine laid down for fourth-class offences: 1° Holding for personal use or using a technological application, device or component designed or specially adapted to delete or modify an item of information referred to in Article L. 331-22 and which are intended to infringe a copyright, a related right or a database producer’s right, to conceal or facilitate such infringement; 2° To use a service…

I.-Constitutes gross negligence, punishable by the fine laid down for fifth class offences, for the person holding access to online public communication services, without a legitimate reason, when the conditions laid down in II are met: 1° Either not to have put in place a means of securing this access; 2° Or to have lacked diligence in implementing this means. II.-.The provisions of I are only applicable when the following…