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 :)

Uh, no — Taiwan technically IS an island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan

“The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa (from Portuguese (Ilha) Formosa, meaning “beautiful (island)”), is located in East Asia off the coast of China, southwest of the main islands of Japan but directly west of the end of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, and north-northwest of the Philippines. It is bound to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, to the west by the Taiwan Strait and to the north by the East China Sea. The island is 394 kilometers (245 miles) long and 144 kilometers (89 miles) wide and consists of steep mountains covered by tropical and subtropical vegetation.”
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“And to my American torrentfreaks, learn your freak’n geography before you use 1337 speak, then showing of your failure of an education system by making idiotic statements like “Taiwan is a part of China” etc.”

Agreed, U.S.A “education” is anything BUT “educational” :) But yeah, at least a portion of Taiwan IS technically an island.

You don’t agree? Take it up with Wikipedia :)

But with this legislation they could join continental China right away. No need to take population interest into concern, just do like your old cousin in China and vote stupide undemocratic law.

I also live in Taiwan.

You also ignore all traffic laws, and any environmental regulations.

So regulating and running anti-P2P? HA!

I can buy pirated DVD’s in a night market right now, from the back of a moped, that also is a bootleg of Honda.

PWNED Private Interests!

BTW, Taiwan is a BEAUTIFUL place. Just don’t own a Mercedes Sedan here… you will regret it trying to park in Taipei.

And to my American torrentfreaks, learn your freak’n geography before you use 1337 speak, then showing of your failure of an education system by making idiotic statements like “Taiwan is a part of China” etc.

The biggest electronic store chain are still selling Bit-torrent download machine and player so I don’t think people anticipate big changes.

By the way, Taiwan is not China. We are democracy. I think it is time that we organize Pirate Party in Taiwan :)

Suure. Just keep believing that, become good, docile little “consumers”, stop disobeying your Corporate Overlords, and you’ll be fine. :)

How big is Taiwan?
How hard would it be for some so-called “heavy uploaders” to go wardriving around, using open wifi networks etc. all the while?
What needs to happen is totally anonymous uploading — no accounts, no verification of any kind. Thus, no “information” for the copyfascists to backtrail because there’s no specific ID related to any particular torrent upload.

THat’s what the “comments” feature is supposed to be for on torrent sites, right? So people can tell each other whether the torrent is actually worth downloading or not?

So come on — one of you 3l33t Haxxor D00dz whip up a next-gen p2p design incorporating really heavy encryption and anonymous uploading capability. (Getting away from dependence on trackers would be a good step, even if it did increase the overall level of crappy files.)

Haha, no.

The only thing this legislation means is that Taiwan will be the birthplace for the next advances in filesharing.

It’s almost depressing how little Napster taught these dimwits.

the copyright shits are attacking BTs most basic rule; sharing.

and before you copyright whores start yapping, know that copyrights originally lasted only for 10 years give or take. now the copyright holder have extended them to near 100 or in some countries even over a century because they’ve become reliable cash cows.

Its too bad the Pirate Bay lawyers never checked the money trail of the alleged copyright infringing material to prove that the people who sweat and toil over the music/software/movie/game get a piece of the sales pie.

And people aren’t just donwloading through torrents. Don’t forget about file hosting sites like rapidshare, megaupload, etc.

Downloading copyrighted (and thus illegal to download) content has become internet culture. It is a staple of how people now use the internet all over the world.

sad really. but a force we will always be up against. big business will never die and thus the file sharing war will not either. it may get easier in the future, but that will only be a battle that is won. never the whole war.

Yea, take a society and keep fragging the people with the actual technological skills out of it and while you’re at it, cut off a society’s primary means of free information exchange.
There ya go, that’ll ensure progress, a well mannered populace and uncensored freedom of opinion and press.

Cutting off people from the internet in these times is like sowing their eyes shut.

Seriously.

Failed in France so wtf?!

Since these updates are copyright protected they are now illegal in Taiwan?

This is China we are talking about, “the people” dont really have a voice.

> Is this the beginning of the end?

LOL! Far from it, this is the beginning of the invention and implementation of next generation p2p technology.

>I feel sad for those poor bastards

Me too, but this will be for show for a little while, and it will be business as usual again.

No! It’s the end of the beginning! The war has just begun.

It seems it will be good year for VPN and seedboxes business.