Region Free Freedom

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

That’s the grey market: products only authorized for sale in one country or territory but imported into another.

E-tailers and customs officials are supposed to stop grey market trade. But it rarely happens unless a large quantity of the same item are discovered. Disney was actually able to stop the grey market for Asian films they had the rights to. With the sale of Miramax to another party, that “big corporation” protection ended.

I don't know the legalities of it, but if it were outright illegal I doubt massive sites like Amazon would routinely sell imports (which they do). They don't even just do it through resellers, Amazon themselves often stock region-free imports from Umbrella, Indicator, etc.