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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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Subject: Re: BtVS: UK or US DVDs?
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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