Posted by Justin on 02/19/06 04:04

Don Del Grande wrote on [Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:43:40 GMT]:
> 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.

That's all well and good, but is it parallel importing if the product
isn't available at all locally, nor licensed for local distribution?

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