You are allowed to use software to bypass the region coding mechanism, provided you do not bypass other technological protection measures controlling access to the content. The Copyright Act prohibits the circumvention of an "access-control technological protection measure (ATPM)", but a region coding device is not an ATPM.
Taken from the Australian Copyright Council website
Please view the Copyright Guide on the University Library website for more information about the above topic as well as other areas of Copyright.
