This article in the Sydney Morning Herald explains rather well the problems we are going to face early next year when Australia's "Free-Trade Agreement" (FTA) with the USA comes into force.
As a software developer, I am mainly concerned with the intellectual property rights - the DMCA spreading to another country on our planet is definitely
not a good thing.
The linked article is interviewing the authors of a book who's title I have borrowed for this post - Elizabeth Thurbon, Linda Weiss and John Mathews. They raise the main points rather eloquently.
It is interesting to see the views of such respected people aligning with the views of Richard Stallman when I heard him speak a month or so ago - founder of the Free Software Foundation and someone typically regarded as being as close to anarchical as you can get without actually being there.
I intend to find as many ways as possible to separate myself from persons and companies who intend to use these new freedom-trampling laws to sue their
own customers, as is happening in the States.