Posted by Goro on 02/19/06 14:05

Justin wrote:
> 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?

IANAL, but I believe that it is still considered parallel importing
even if the product is not available domestically. I think the key is
that the particular product (DVD in this case) has not been licensed
for use in your locale and you are importing it anyway.

-goro-

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