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My sense is that this is incorrect.

I think the law would prohibit breaking into people's computers, not circumventing internet censorship.

By circumventing internet censorship you're accessing information that its owner wants you to be able to access. You're not breaking into their computer.

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Unfortunately, no. Consider prosecutions of users in the U.K. for accessing TPB via a VPN - TPB didn’t prohibit access, the govt did - but using any computer to access any information on any other computer which you are not authorised to access for any reason is an offence.

Link? Can't find any evidence that people have been prosecuted in UK for using VPN for TPB.

Now your are mixing copyright problems with accessing public-data...not really honest of you.

And it was not the Goverment who went against the users but Atari, Codemasters, TopWare Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and the "Ministy of Sound"...for COPYRIGHT violations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_the_United_Kin...

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