Copyright infringiment for playing games out of region?

[Halo Fanboy]

Both Espagaluda II and Mushihime-Sama Futari have written in plain English (when the rest of the text is japanese):
THIS GAME IS INTENDED FOR USE IN JAPAN... OPERATION OUTSIDE THIS REGION MAY BE COPYRIGHT INFRINGIMENT blah blah blah...

Does this have any legal precident? It seems ridiculous to me that you could buy a game and then move somewhere else where the game would be "copyright infringiment" to use. It's one of those laughable copyright warnings that never get enforced but it still gives me the hilarious mental image of police busting down the door of someone playing a game out of region lol.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Well, would you have to disable the region lock on the console to be able to play them? Because if you would, and if in the process you wound up disabling some sort of copy protection, then it would be technically illegal under the DMCA. Otherwise, it's probably just as much of a lie as those FBI warnings you see at the beginning of DVD releases, which are false because the First Sale doctrine allows pretty much everything that warning claims is illegal.

 

[YourlocalPCsnob]

Did you know because of Disney litigation in the early 90's anything made since 1927 (the year before Mickey came into being) won't enter public domain until most of us die? Disney wanted to pretty much have the copyright on mickey mouse until the end of time.

No copyright discussion is really complete unless you talk about how outrageous the law is.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law

 

[Halo Fanboy]

Well, would you have to disable the region lock on the console to be able to play them? Because if you would, and if in the process you wound up disabling some sort of copy protection, then it would be technically illegal under the DMCA. Otherwise, it's probably just as much of a lie as those FBI warnings you see at the beginning of DVD releases, which are false because the First Sale doctrine allows pretty much everything that warning claims is illegal.

It's particularly strange because the games have no region protection. Cave even seems to have wanted these games played by westerners. And my great aunt bought it in a local japanaese store where she lives so I didn't go through any unofficial dealers either.