[LINK] Re: [2600-AU] "Restricting DVDs "illegal": ACCC"

[Michael Harris]

Andrew,

So correct there, almost forgot about classification. Suppose that's what 
you get for writing messages at 10am in the morning being a night shift 
worker and all :)

MH

At 11:36 AM 27/03/2001, Someone grabed Andrew Garden and forced them to say 
the following:
> >import region 1 DVD's and rent them out, there are a few stores in Sydney
> >that do this. After todays comments from the ACCC I doubt that any legal
> >action from the industry against such a business would get far.
> >
>This is a well known practise which has been occurring in the Independent
>DVD Rental market for quite some time. For legal reasons, I will neither
>confirm or deny that my store is involved in this practise. The reasons for
>stores doing so is simply because there are not enough titles which are
>available in Australia which their customers wish to rent, as the majority
>of these customers are aware and understand the DVD market to some degree.
>Because of this, store owners have to undertake the practise of renting R1
>DVD's for the purposes of supplementing their income, which would be near
>zero should they do not.
>
>
>Mike,
>
>Apart from the copyright issue, almost all R1 DVD's cannot be rented or 
>sold within Australia as they have not been classified by the 
>Classification Board.  Whether the ACCC view prevents legal action for 
>copyright or not, a retailer selling or hiring a R1 DVD remains liable for 
>prosecution under the respective State or Territory classification 
>legislation if the DVD has not been classified.  R4 DVD's are classified 
>by the distributor prior to Australian release, and are usually different 
>in content leaving the R1 version unclassified.
>
>Andrew