Re: Censorship by the BBC?

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:58:06 GMT, Drsolly said:
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >
> > > * Drsolly:
> > >
> > > > The purpose of the different "regions" on DVD, is to stop people buying a
>  
> > > > DVD where it's cheapest, and get them to buy the higher-priced (but 
> > > > identical) version instead. People who buy the cheaper version and import
>  
> > > > it, are called "Grey-marketers", an epithet that sounds like they're doing 
> > > > something naughty, which they aren't.
> > >
> > > Importing copyrighted material into the EU for business purposes is
> > > illegal unless you've got permission from the copyright owner. 8-(
> > > Copyright law usually allows for geographic restrictions on
> > > distribution, for precisely the reason you mentioned.
> >  
> > I hadn't known that
>
> I'm pretty sure that the US laws say something similar - it's what they
> use to bust people who import counterfeit CD/handbags/etc...
 
Counterfeiting is a completely different crime. I'm talking about, you buy
a genuine original CD or DVD in the USA, and take it back home to England.

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