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Originally Posted by HarryT
Presumably to prevent people bulk-buying to re-sell, because although it's legal to BUY out-of-region, it's not legal to SELL. ie it's legal for you to buy a Region 1 DVD from the US, but it wouldn't be legal for you to resell those DVDs in the UK.
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I'm sure you are right - but it IS a restriction - and wanting to buy 2 copies as Xmas gifts is hardly bulk buying!
I wonder if they even enforce it; they may not accept 2 in the same trolley but if I went back to one I bought last year & tried to buy it again.....
Also, I have in fact bought (music instruction ) import DVDs from Amazon and than
sold them on amazon market place when done with them. I have yet to see a
"sorry you are not allowed to sell that" popup- Amazon just sit back & take the commission.
Ebay.co.uk place no restriction on selling used Region 1 DVDs either.
Meanwhile , back with the GOT debate; I may be perverse but it feels less ethical to me to boost the evil Murdoch empire's profits by taking SKY TV -( in order to legally view that & other HBO shows,) than it does to pirate now, but the Blu ray later. [ me & over a million others if the news reports are to be believed ) We do have S1 - S3 on Blu ray ,but no fan is going to want to spend a year dodging spoilers & waiting to see S4 on disc.. And when the owners of HBO issue a press release saying
we don't care about piracy, is that not
almost a licence to go ahead
I have explored all other options for legally viewing HBO - I even have a paid for DNS service when gets me to most USA content, but when I try to sign up for HBO GO it's wants my USA cable TV account. Some companies just don't seem to want to be paid! Waiting for virginmedia to strike a deal & screen the HBO/ Sky Atlantic shows on my cable is ... well... lets say I probably won't live that long