Encoding Restrictions. No person shall apply the automatic
gain control copy control technology or colorstripe copy control
technology to prevent or limit consumer copying except such copying-

(A) of a single transmission, or specified group of transmissions, of
live events or of audiovisual works for which a member of the public has
exercised choice in selecting the transmissions, including the content
of the transmissions or the time of receipt of such transmissions, or
both, and as to which such member is charged a separate fee for each
such transmission or specified group of transmissions;

(B) from a copy of a transmission of a live event or an audiovisual work
if such transmission is provided by a channel or service where payment
is made by a member of the public for such channel or service in the
form of a subscription fee that entitles the member of the public to
receive all of the programming contained in such channel or service;

(C) from a physical medium containing one or more prerecorded
audiovisual works; or

(D) from a copy of a transmission described in subparagraph (A) or from
a copy made from a physical medium described in subparagraph (C).

In the event that a transmission meets both the conditions set forth in
subparagraph (A) and those set forth in subparagraph (B), the
transmission shall be treated as a transmission described in
subparagraph (A).

(3) Inapplicability. This subsection shall not-

(A) require any analog video cassette camcorder to conform to the
automatic gain control copy control technology with respect to any video
signal received through a camera lens;

(B) apply to the manufacture, importation, offer for sale, provision of,
or other trafficking in, any professional analog video cassette
recorder; or

(C) apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking
in, any previously owned analog video cassette recorder, if such
recorder was legally manufactured and sold when new and not subsequently
modified in violation of paragraph (1)(B).

(4) Definitions. For purposes of this subsection:

(A) An "analog video cassette recorder" means a device that records, or
a device that includes a function that records, on electromagnetic tape
in an analog format the electronic impulses produced by the video and
audio portions of a television program, motion picture, or other form of
audiovisual work.

(B) An "analog video cassette camcorder" means an analog video ca