I would like to know if it would be legal to import music CDs, DVDs
and Computer games from the United States or Asia, and distrbute them
from a shop in Ireland to Irish customers, and if so where would i
find the cheapest distributers of these products.  Are there national
rights given to distributors for each country to distribute these
items.

I have purchased music CDs from www.cd-wow.com and noticed that they
send these Cds from Hong Kong.  There is currently a case been brought
against them by the BPI as shown in the following link.

http://tinyurl.com/7hnq 

Would the case above affect every country as currently purchasing
these products from irish suppliers wouldn't allow me to sell them at
a fair price suce as cd-wow.