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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Ultimately, we are discussing the letter of the law verses the spirit of the law. Buying Geo-restricted DVD's violates the spirit of any law that enforces Geo-restriction, even if it doesn't violate the letter of the law. For the most part, what the author of the article described is not piracy.
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Here is the US letter of the law (from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act):
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title...; to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner.
A region code (in the US) qualified as a "technological measure".
I make no comment on othe countries' laws....