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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't understand the question. The DVD market is open and unrestricted. The video streaming market is not. That's just the way it is.
And your point is? Bypassing geographical restrictions isn't piracy. Piracy is taking something without paying for it. There is no "copyright violation" in buying a DVD from a different country.
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My point is, Hollywood added geo-restriction codes to limit the distribution of DVDs to only the region the copyright owners (Hollywood) wanted them to be released in. The exact same reason there are geo-restrictions on video streaming. Just because one can be easily bypassed and the other can't does not change the fact that morally, they are one and the same. (Perhaps, in the early days, Hollywood should have sued every firm that delivered DVD's outside, the legal region. Then, it might not be easy to bypass regions codes, due to unavailability of discs...)
Here's a what if, if the person in question had a friend download a TV show onto a SD chip, pay for it, and ship it to the person who wants to get the show, would that be right or wrong? And, by your ethics, why?