Posted by Goro on 02/19/06 03:18

Don Del Grande wrote:
> 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).

Did you see how the DVD Steering committee has found that Region Coding
ispointless (it doesn't wokr and is just an annoyance) and recommended
to that HD-DVD NOT have region coding. They decided to have it anyway.

-goro-

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