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I'm not sure what sort of victory you are talking about. Yes, each country can determine the precise expiration dates of, say, copyrights... but the TPP obliges it to be at least 70 years. And yes, Australia can choose not to criminalize Australia itself deciding to violate TPMs, but they are obliged to criminalize Australian citizens violating TPMs.

So Australia can break TPMs itself, and Australia can wiggle a few days here or there in determining just how long copyright protection lasts. So what?



I'm an Australian. The answer to your "so what?" is that so far Australians can't be prosecuted for bypassing geoblocks.

HTH.




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