Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:01:37 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BtVS: UK or US DVDs? Message-ID: <20040611150137.GA1557@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <p06002022bcef32840f7a@[10.0.1.3]> References: <caar27$1cs9$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20040611093454.GL70693@iconoplex.co.uk> <p06002022bcef32840f7a@[10.0.1.3]>
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Brad Knowles said on Jun 11, 2004 at 12:08:25: > At 10:34 AM +0100 2004-06-11, Paul Robinson wrote: > > > I would suggest "neither". However, of course, it's technically illegal for > > you to buy DVDs licensed for a region in which you do not reside. That's the > > point of putting regions on DVDs. > > No, it's not illegal at all. It's perfectly legal to buy Region > One DVDs and have them shipped to Europe (or elsewhere), When I lived in Paris (around two years ago), the Virgin Megastore there -- hardly an underground operation -- had an entire section of Region 1 DVDs. I bought a couple myself, and one of them had dire warnings about the alleged illegality of selling it outside the US and Canada, which didn't seem to bother the store. Rahul
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