<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Not really on topic (apologies) but we don't presently have book parallel imports. The productivity commission are pushing it on book sellers, who argue it will destroy the Australian publishing industry.<br><br><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/comment/plan-to-end-restrictions-on-parallel-book-imports-does-not-stack-up-20161025-gsa40d.html">http://www.smh.com.au/comment/plan-to-end-restrictions-on-parallel-book-imports-does-not-stack-up-20161025-gsa40d.html</a><br><br></div>Kind regards<br><br></div>Paul Wilkins<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 December 2016 at 12:20, Mark Andrews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marka@isc.org" target="_blank">marka@isc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
In message <<a href="mailto:20161216110543.N30533@ali-syd-1.albury.net.au">20161216110543.N30533@ali-<wbr>syd-1.albury.net.au</a>>, Ross Wheeler writes<br>
:<br>
<span class="">> Artificially breaking the way the internet works in order to prop up<br>
> dubious business operations, through brute force methods (like court<br>
> orders) is not something that should be encouraged.<br>
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</span>Requiring that movies etc. be available in Australia withing N days<br>
of publishing anywhere in the world and allow parallel importing like<br>
we have for books would go a long way to addressing this issue.<br>
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Mark<br>
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Mark Andrews, ISC<br>
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