Playboy cites Web case to block scrambling. (Playboy Enterprises Group Inc.'s Internet indecency case)
Multichannel News, July, 1997 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON - Playboy Enterprises Group Inc. last week said the Supreme Court's ruling in an Internet-indecency case invalidated a law requiring cable operators to scramble or time-shift adult cable channels. Playboy, which is seeking to overturn the scrambling law, said in a court filing that the high court in June voided the Communications Decency Act partly on the grounds that the meaning of the term "indecent" communications was too vague.
Playboy said because the same vague indecency standard was applied in the scrambling law, the law is no longer valid, and it should be struck down. Under Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress ordered cable operators to fully scramble the audio and video signals of adult channels, in order to...
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