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 designed or specially adapted to infringe, under the same conditions, the infringement referred to in the previous paragraph.
These provisions do not apply to acts which do not prejudice right holders and which are carried out for the purposes of computer security or scientific research into cryptography.