Alarmed by the increasing "piracy" of over-the-air subscription television transmissions and the threat it poses to a burgeoning new industry, the Legislature, in 1980, enacted a protective measure, codified as Penal Code section 593e. As originally enacted, section 593e provided in pertinent part that "[e]very person who for profit knowingly and willfully manufactures, distributes, or sells any device ... with the...
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