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| Takeo Member 104 Posts 5/00 | Hey All, This is mostly a question to the Canadians here. I have been ordering from DVD Empire to Canada for two years without any problems. I always ship via FedEx for the security (have to sign for it), speed of delivery and package tracking benefits. Anyway, I ordered 4 DVD's a few days ago, and my tracking report for the package, which has already cleared Canadian customs I think, says... "Regulatory Agency Clearance Delay" WTF?! I've never had that happen before! What does that mean? Are the porn police going to come and take me away? Are people looking at my shipment? Are they actually watching the DVD's? Are they going to confiscate stuff potentially? It's not like any of it is super crazy... there's one title in there from JM Productions (thought I would try something different for a change... just out of curiosity) but everything else is very mainstream... Hustler and Kick Ass Pictures. Anyway, if anyone has any insights... especially any Canadians, that would be cool :) p.s. This is my first order since 9-11 and the anthrax mailings... maybe they are checking more packages these days? Edited by - takeo on Dec 9 2001 [Link] |
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| M.B. Senior Member 1679 Posts 2/01 | Customs: I had a package confiscated once because there was a hint of forced sex in one of the scenes. If this happens to you, you'll get a notice in the mail telling you your package has been held for further "review", then they'll send you another notice telling you that it has been confiscated (only the disc which contains the "obscene" subject matter, the rest of your discs you will receive). They then give you the option of appealing the so called customs "ruling" (which I do not suggest you do, very time consuming and costly, not to mention embarrasing) or you can choose to forfeight the disc, which you will do if you just ignore the letter and don't respond, which I suggest you do). Online stores in Canada: There is currently a legal case that a gay bookstore here in T.O. has brought against the Ontario government because the store sold an "agent" a vhs tape that had bondage in it. They fined the store, but the store has sued claiming that the Ontario government has no legal right to censor anybodys freedom of speech, that it may be a Federal matter or something along those lines. The decision comes down the end of January. This could drastically change the amount of porn available here in Ontario and the rest of Canada. If the bookstore wins, there could be a flood of new product into Canada without those pricks censoring our porn. If they lose, I think that the amount of dvds available here in Ontarion will drastically reduce to maybe only a handfull of titles. A lot of stickered vhs/dvd titles that I have viewed here have been missing a good 30 minutes of footage due to government censorship. |
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