Posted by Don Del Grande on 02/19/06 02:43

Justin wrote:

> Goro wrote:

>> Adrian wrote:

>>> Walter Traprock wrote:

>>>> Region free dvd playing is an illegal act of piracy.

>>> You clearly have no idea of what you're talking about.

>> it's antoher person confusing paralle imports with piracy

> Is it parrallel importing if the item isn't available at all locally?

"Parallel importing" is legal in and of itself, provided no one
imports more than one copy of any specific item. (For example, there
was a time when, if you went to amazon.co.uk and looked for "Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the description included a
warning that no more than one copy could be shipped to any USA
address.) You can purchase a R2 (or any other region, for that
matter) DVD without problem.

For that matter, I can't find any USA law preventing somebody from
owning an R2 DVD player. Just make sure you get one that converts PAL
to NTSC and will work on 120V AC (you can always buy a plug adapter at
Radio Shack if you have to).

It's modifying a player to play all regions that's the "problem",
although pretty much every DVD player in a computer today has the
ability to change regions a given number of times before the region
code is "fixed" (well, at least until somebody loads a new set of
firmware into it).

-- Don

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