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I don't think so. The focus of custom officers are weapons and illegal drugs. Intellectual property is not their main priority.
Firstly I don't think they would open your bag and check your DVDs and CDs because they see it on the X-ray scanner (or whatever). They main focus is drugs and weapons.
They really would not open your bag, take out a few DVDs and CDs, and play it on a computer. It would be too much hassle and an intrusion of privacy.
They really would not open your bag, take out a few DVDs and CDs, and play it on a computer. It would be too much hassle and an intrusion of privacy.
spencer-smith
Firstly I don't think they would open your bag and check your DVDs and CDs because they see it on the X-ray scanner (or whatever). They main focus is drugs and weapons.
They really would not open your bag, take out a few DVDs and CDs, and play it on a computer. It would be too much hassle and an intrusion of privacy.
They really would not open your bag, take out a few DVDs and CDs, and play it on a computer. It would be too much hassle and an intrusion of privacy.
No, I doubt they would open your bag. I took a massive holder full of DVDs home last Xmas (most of them were originals though!) and they never asked to see them, or even wanted to look in my bag.
However, they do do random searches on bags, so there is a chance they might find them and take them off him. Don't know how big that chance is, so up to the OP if they want to take that chance. They are cracking down on piracy though
And OP- it's illegal to copy anything with a copyright (so that includes DVDs and CDs), so I guess that includes your DVDs that you own. Never heard anything about being able to back them up legally, though there could be a law like that.
They need to check on the contents before saying that you are illegally copying DVDs, but the act of checking is both time-consuming and a privacy-intrusion. Further more, they are for your own use and not for resale.
spencer-smith
They need to check on the contents before saying that you are illegally copying DVDs, but the act of checking is both time-consuming and a privacy-intrusion. Further more, they are for your own use and not for resale.
But how do they know that? They could be 100 copies of the same thing.
Erm... If the things are not elegantly packaged (as in a box), chances are that they are not. Also, hand-writing on CDs using markers for example would help to tell that it is personal. Ultimately, the OP can explain to the custom officer.
It would be hard to tell a data disc from a "copied disc" unless the officer put the disc in a comp. But by then it is an intrusion of privacy.
It would be hard to tell a data disc from a "copied disc" unless the officer put the disc in a comp. But by then it is an intrusion of privacy.
Authorities are more concerned about professionally copied DVDs than DVDs copied on plain disks with handwriting on them.
Factories in Asia produce huge amounts of counterfeit DVDs which are difficult to distinguish from the real thing and are sold much cheaper. Those are what are damaging the DVD industry and what they're concerned about.
Factories in Asia produce huge amounts of counterfeit DVDs which are difficult to distinguish from the real thing and are sold much cheaper. Those are what are damaging the DVD industry and what they're concerned about.
I'm sure you will be fine. I managed to get through with a pen knife going to America weeks after September 11th (unintentionally ofcourse) 
This may be a load of rubbish but when I was returning from Mexico the tour rep said not to put any dolphin DVD's through the X-Ray machine thing otherwise it would scramble because its a copied disc with no protection. We all had to hand them over for inspection instead, like I said I don't know if thats true or not 
This may be a load of rubbish but when I was returning from Mexico the tour rep said not to put any dolphin DVD's through the X-Ray machine thing otherwise it would scramble because its a copied disc with no protection. We all had to hand them over for inspection instead, like I said I don't know if thats true or not 
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