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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
That [region-free DVD] isn't violating georestrictions, as far as I know. Buying ebooks through some mechanism is.
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I'm shocked that you're shocked by the immorality of circumventing georestriction to buy books but don't see a problem with using a region-free DVD player.
IANAL, but
http://www.jltp.uiuc.edu/archives/sun.pdf says that the two are identical under the US DMCA:
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Relying on a broad but plain language reading of § 1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), some copyright owners and commentators claim that any circumventing activity or any device enabling circumvention of the region coding system—such as multi-zone DVD players, which allow users to play DVDs regardless of their region codes—may constitute violations of copyright laws, especially the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA.
In Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc., the
Federal Circuit declined to adopt such a reading of § 1201.
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So "any circumventing activity" covers using amazon.in when you're in the US, and "device" covers region-free DVD players.