A buddy on mine on a resent trip to Medellin bought some cheap, unlabeled, porn DVD at the Sunday market, On returning home he discovered one of the DVDs was of illegal porn. My friend is a pretty seasoned monger, although a not a member of CH and the contents of the DVD left him shook up. He immediately destroyed the DVD,

What was also of great concern was that he traveled through Panama, JFK, and Dubai with this in his luggage before returning to South Africa just as customs tightened security for the World Cup. He was very, very lucky not to have been searched during his travels.

I actually advised him to by some DVDs during his travels in Medellin as I had bought some on my trips to Colombia (US$1-2 each) and found them to be cheap and of decent quality, then I was in Medellin I bought a ton of pirated DVDs (no, not all where porn), as I have done in Peru and, of course SEA. I have never had a major problem. Have anyone else had a similar experience?

unlabeled porn DVD? How would he have known what he bought? Besides illegal porn, it could have been anything...gay, or just plain shitty porn. Why would anyone want to buy a DVD without first knowing the content? The generic term porn would not be enough for me...especially if I might run into a unlabled DVD that potentially contains two senior citizen's fucking....or the worst case scenerio getting arrested for illegal porn.

I have bought plenty of pirated DVD's....in Asia, in South America, but have never seen one sold without at least showing a copy of the cover or something with the content.

I guess the easy solution to avoid any problems (getting caught with illegal porn certainly would be one HUGE F'n problem) is to view them in Colombia - or wherever - before traveling with them.

As he explained it he chose DVD's from a catalog the guy had, the seller then fished the DVDs out of his stock. I have seen some of the other films he bought, for research purposes of course, and they where as advertised.

I have never checked the DVD’s I have bought wile travelling normally I don’t have the time or inclination, these days I travel with a net book that doesn’t even have a DVD player. I have got use to the fact that about one out of 10 DVDs don’t play or are lousy quality but at a buck each who cares?