National Satellite Sports, Inc. v. Eliadis, Inc., D/B/A Melody Lane Lounge, Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P., D/B/A Time Warner Cable

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• holding that a party who was contractually authorized to receive and relay a communication was “entitled” to receive and use the communication under Section 605
• holding that a party who was contractually authorized to receive and relay a communication was \entitled\ to receive and use the communication under Section 605
• holding that cable operator violated the first sentence of § 605(a) even though it did not intercept the event telecast in question because the cable operator divulged the telecast to an unauthorized person
• holding that cable operator violated the first sentence of § 605(a) even though it 2 did not intercept the event telecast in question because the cable operator divulged the telecast to 3 an unauthorized person
• holding that private cable company had violated section 705 by selling the broadcast transmission of a boxing match to a commercial customer, when the company was only authorized by the program’s originator to distribute it to residential customers
• concluding after discussion of the relevant legislative history that “Congress intended to bring cable and satellite communications under the protection of [the Communications] Act”

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