Why Geo-dodging to watch US Netflix should be
officially OK and other insights of the Productivity Commission
Intellectual Property Arrangements Draft Report
If you're one of the tech-savvy cats out there who has been
accessing US Netflix, or Canadian Amazon, or any other foreign
geo-blocked version of a movies, TV, music or e-books content
provider, the Productivity Commission Draft Report on Intellectual
Property (IP) Arrangements has some good news for you! Fret no more
(if you even have been) about the legality of using that Virtual
Private Network (VPN) to "geo-dodge" or circumvent the
country-specific blocks to access the much larger libraries of US
or Canadian content services because the Productivity Commission is
on your side! In its IP Draft Report released last Friday (29 April
2016), the Productivity Commission concludes, amongst other things,
that Australia's copyright legislation (the Copyright Act
1968 (Cth)) should be amended to "make clear that it
