Sec. 3. 17-A MRSA §431, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:

2-A.__"Computer data" or "data" means any representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions that is being prepared or has been prepared and is intended to be processed, is being processed or has been processed in a computer or computer network. "Computer data" may be in any form, whether readable only by a computer or only by a human or by either, including, but not limited to, computer printouts, magnetic storage media, punched cards, or stored internally in the memory of the computer.

Sec. 4. 17-A MRSA §431, sub-§4-A is enacted to read:

4-A.__"Computer operation" means arithmetic, logical, monitoring, storage or retrieval functions and any combination of those functions and includes, but is not limited to, communication with, storage of data to or retrieval of data from any device or human hand manipulation of electronic or magnetic impulses. A "computer operation" for a particular computer may also be any function for which that computer was generally designed.

Sec. 5. 17-A MRSA §431, sub-§5-A is enacted to read:

5-A.__"Computer services" means external services, including data processing services, Internet services, electronic mail services and electronic message services, and information or data stored in connection with those services.

Sec. 6. 17-A MRSA §431, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 620, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

6.__"Computer software" means a set of computer programs, procedures and associated documentation concerned with computer data or with the operation of a computer, computer program or computer network.

Sec. 7. 17-A MRSA §431, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 620, is amended to read: