Although I am not a lawyer, MrMod may actually be right. Australia is a constitutional Monarchy, not a true . Our constitution doesn't even protect our freedom of speech, nor do we have a Bill of Rights. Therefore, I would suggest that common law would come into effect, unless statutes expressly confirm the status quo or state otherwise, hence, in my opinion, the changes in the Act. Under these conditions the law could be broken not by the service being viewed, but by the means through which it is accessed if that should involve circumventing authorised content management. Note that this management doesn't even have to be secure, but only implied. For example, the removal of DVD encryption is now common knowledge, however, the simplicity of the act does not make it legal. I suppose the laws in Aus will eventually be tested in the courts. Perhaps someone with some legal training here could elaborate.
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