Hope it backfires, else they deserve getting under control of main China, so to formalize things…

In the meantime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_p2p

then they came for the french and we did not speak out

next they went for the Taiwanese and we did not speak out

when they came for me i blew a hole in em with my shotty

Considering that Taiwan and the Mainland are AWASH IN PIRACY that the officials TOLERATE… WHY would they ban torrents? This would be hypocrisy at its finest (though governments are awash in hypocrisy as a rule). Basically, I think the government has bigger fish to fry…

NO, this is TRIAD-BASED ANGER. Torrents are removing THEIR PIRACY PROFIT. Why buy a $5 shitty DVD when I can torrent the file? It’s pirated ANYWAY.

I make you a bet several officials were threatened with immediate death to their families if they didn’t comply.

@50 – technically yes since there is still the word “China” in the full name, “Republic of China”. However you’ll never see it, say on a drop-down menu on a website asking you to choose the country of origin or country of residence. It always says “Taiwan”.

And, we have separate passports in Taiwan. We need a visa to go to China.

Did that clear things up?

@#16 Taiwan isn’t China.”

and yes Taiwan is China!
there is two Chinas in this planet at the moment if u didnt knew…

CHINA u can take that island back!!!

Your totally misreading what this new legislation does: it’s aimed only at copyright infringment, not p2p.

@18: “It’s time for us to start encrypting information transfer I guess; in a way that a middle man cannot gain conclusion of the acts and information shared between two parties, and the receiving party has no substantial evidence against the sharing party. Right, anybody has any suggestions on how to do this on a large scale? :-o”

1. Purchase use of a VPN service.

2. Use 1-click hosters such as Rapidshare etc. etc. – start looking around for good forums & blogs to find links: SceneDDL is a good place to start with (A blog that has release write-ups and features automatic uploading of scene files from topsites leading to pre-times comparable to the fastest BT trackers. Also has a great IRC based request system that is also automated).

3. There’s already several “viable” methods of sharing files via P2P that are fully encrypted and anonymous. I say “viable” as there’s many implemenations of P2P on encrypted networks around however many of them are extremely slow – too slow to be useable.

For my money Freenet is the best fully encrypted P2P network as it can achieve very high (relatively) transfer speeds seeing as it was designed from the ground up to be a way of transferring large files anonymously.

Freenet is a “distributed” P2P network, meaning one doesn’t share files perse, but rather each user has a “store” that is made available to the network. Data that is inserted is encrypted and then broken up across many different stores.

Freenet is not without it’s downsides: the main one being unless one is constantly connected (restarting is OK – a few minutes off the network doesn;t hurt) performance drops markedly – something to do with how many other peers your client knows and vice-versa. It also needs many more people to start inserting content into it.

However, from a speed vs. anonymity viewpoint it is easily the fastest anonymous P2P system around. I reguarly download files at 200KB/s (the more popular a file is the faster it is).

Seriously though, VPN’s are going to make a killing in the future.

And artist’s are going to lose out ultimatly(Unless their canny and buy share’s in iPredator).

The money their making potential customer’s spend on VPN’s could be spent elsewhere, such as, a CD….
Let’s drive them even further underground eh!

Moronic business-model.

I just can’t wait for the day when a moderatly sucessful Artist/Developer decides to cut the middle’MEN’ and puts their SD content on Mininova with a donate button. And a sensibly priced “Buy Now” button for the HD content.

Any other solutions my fellow TorrentFreaks

WW2, China was essentialy in civil war between the Republic of China and Peoples Republic of China. Aid from the allies to RoC was used instead of fighting the invading Japanese to fighting the PRC. After WW2 ended this continued, RoC as one of the victors of WW2 occupied the Japenese territory of Taiwan, much like the Soviets occupied North Korea.

RoC was defeated on the mainland and legged it to Taiwan with all the reserve currency, both claiming to be the only “China” for decades. Presently the Taiwanese are pondering declaring independence as PRC claims it as its territory, but it is defacto independent as PRC never controlled it.

Hope that clears up a few gaps in readers knowlege :)