Criminal possession of computer related material · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 156.35 Criminal possession of computer related material.
A person is guilty of criminal possession of computer related material when having no right to do so, he knowingly possesses, in any form, any copy, reproduction or duplicate of any computer data or computer program which was copied, reproduced or duplicated in violation of section 156.30 of this article, with intent to benefit himself or a person other than an owner thereof.
Criminal possession of computer related material is a class E felony.
A person criminally possesses computer-related material by knowingly possessing, without right, a copy of data or a program unlawfully duplicated under § 156.30, intending to benefit anyone other than the owner. ★ It is a class E felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.