ABSTRACT
The purpose of the research documented in this book was to critically analyse whether the interests of end-users, who use streaming as a method to access digital content, have been adequately accommodated in Australian copyright law. As a revolutionary technology, streaming has provided a seismic shift from an experience based on downloading and sharing to mere access to digital content. Due to the unique technological architecture of streaming, challenges have arisen in applying traditional copyright law norms to it, particularly concerning the legality of the streaming activities of end-users. Although streaming has gained increasing popularity among end-users as an expedient method of accessing digital content, scant attention has been directed towards resolving grey areas associated with the right of reproduction, exceptions, TPMs, and website-blocking injunctions, which emerge from using streaming. The grey areas in copyright law arising from streaming have made end-users face utter dubiousness about using streaming to access digital content. As a result, end-users put greater effort into evading potential copyright infringement by undertaking certain acts that could be detrimental personally, such as maintaining anonymity when accessing digital content. The scepticism about using streaming, therefore, adversely affects end-users in their practice of accessing digital content.
