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Further to the above post, I should add that sub-section 51(3), which the House of Representatives Committee recommended the repeal, provides the Act is not contravened for various reasons related to Intellectual Property, including, for instance, provisions in license agreements.
My view on this whole matter is that dividing the world into segments and selling the rights individually was something that was possible and logical before ebooks and the internet. It is no longer either logical or even technologically feasible, though we are left with the legacy of the times when it was. That it works at all at the moment is due only to the technologically unsophisticated or apathetic. Like it or not, the reality is that for electronic goods and/or services we now have one world market, though it may take some time for the law and the industries concerned to recognise this.
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