Posted by Stephen Stewart on 02/19/06 10:19

"Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> 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?
>

Just because it isn't available in the home market for licensing reasons
doesn't remove your right to buy it in another market where it is
legitimately available.

When you're on holiday I'll bet you don't worry about consequences of buying
presents that aren't available at home.

In fact most people deliberately seek out things that aren't available as
they make more attractive presents.


Stephen

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