Maybe. Maybe you just bought a "local version". Maybe the place you bought it in or from has laws against region encoding (it is easier to buy a region free DVD player in the EU, for instance, than a regioned one because of consumer laws that view region encoding as an unfair obstacle to consumer choice). Maybe you want to improve your Chinese. Does the customs agent have every anime DVD cover memorized? Does he know how to spot bootlegs? Does he even legally have to care?
NO! Because creating bootleg discs is illegal, but owning them is not. Why? Because logically, it doesn't make sense to go after and individually prosecute even one million purchasers of bootlegs spread over the nation. That's an individual trial for each of them, and the gains from it (probably the cost of a legal DVD) will probably bare cover the legal fees. Plus the fact that you have to track them down, and then tie up law enforcement (who will care less and refuse or be unable to do so) to bring them in.
Not to mention that most juries probably won't understand the difference between bootlegs and legal copies.
It makes more sense to go after the creators of bootleg discs, and this is what the law does. After all, it's only 5-20 guys cranking out hundreds, thousands of discs, each one representing lost profit. Bust them, bring in their goods, and you have a case for them being guilty of piracy beyond a reasonable doubt. And juries will understand this.
So, to recap, owning bootleg and R2 DVDs IS legal and fine, because "you don't know what's legit and not". Even if you do, the police likely don't (or care), and proving you knowingly bought a bootleg disc will be difficult to prove in court. If you incriminate yourself (which can be thrown out, ironically) by saying, "Look, these are bootlegs!", then you deserve whatever punishment you get for being truly stupid.
Creating and selling bootleg discs is illegal. Why else would someone have expensive DVD coying equipment and tons of copies of legal media laying around, if not to make an illegal profit? This'll be easy to prove and make a case out of.


