Didn't Gundam Wing come out here on DVD first, and bilingual too?
Sounds like total BS to me, considering
(1) they use territorial lockout on all their DVDs, and
(2) the HK bootlegs are be far cheaper than R1 DVDs for the Japanese market, and region-free too. These are openly sold on Yahoo Japan auctions, I don't see Bandai having a cow over that.