On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Lazlo Nibble wrote:
quoted 9 lines I was wondering about this over the weekend. How could anyone prevent
> > I was wondering about this over the weekend. How could anyone prevent
> > someone buying such a CD mail order from a company in a country where it
> > had already been released? It seems to me that GATT would probably want to
> > hear about such occurrences.
>
> I don't think that's what anyone's talking about. As far as I know there's no
> law to prevent you from mail-ordering copies for yourself -- you only get in
> trouble if you import copies for resale. (GATT *does* recognize the concept
> of copyrights, right?)
I mentioned GATT here thinking they would not approve of people being
prohibited from mail ordering things from other countries. Sorry, reading
it now it doesn't seem very clear.
If there is no restriction on mail orderging things then it seems that
either people don't want to spend the extra money, don't have a
credit/debit card or don't want to pay extra for a bank draft or some
other reason I haven't thought of. Just checked Pastel Blue in the UK and
they would mail order it to the US for US$20.41 or UKP 12.38. This may be
a lot for people in the US, 12.38 isn't unusual in the UK for a new CD.
BTW I don't work for Pastel Blue nor have I used them (though I'm planning
on trying them out when I get my finances sorted) so bear this in mind.
Hope this widens peoples options a bit, if not sorry to be a bother.
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