Are we having fun yet...

Lack of choice, lack of competition, precedent and the like are not enough.

There is no legal recourse based on refusal to supply an item.

Unless that refusal is illegal. The ACCC has some examples that cover this, but it boils down to "If it is not illegal to refuse supply, then the supplier can refuse supply". My point is, and always has been, is that it should be illegal to supply zoned DVD players in Australia.

Consider parallel importing of CD's. The ACCC fought for and got that through, and it will stay. What makes DVD's different?

Hollywood, that's all.

If zoning wasn't introduced in the first place, we would be allowed to parallel import DVD's. Hollywood created the zoning idea, and we accepted it. The ACCC doesn't seem to fully understand the situation, they just keep telling me that that's the way it is.

And it boils down to copyright, zoning does nothing to prevent pirating, nothing at all.