© Erik Charlton
The Taiwanese government this week approved an amendment to its copyright laws, targeted specifically at P2P users.
"The amendment makes it a crime to use P2P technology to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted works online, which sounds like pretty bad news for Taiwanese torrent sites who previously operated in a legal gray area," notes enigmax at TorrentFreak.
"By requiring ISPs to pass on warnings from rights holders to P2P users, the bill is designed to encourage self-correction by users while discouraging excessively punitive lawsuits against small-time infringers," writes Billboard's Thibault Worth. "In addition, the law introduces a 'three-strikes' provision whereby ISPs can restrict the Internet access of users who download copyrighted material more than twice."
More here from Techdirt ... more here from AfterDawn ... and more here from ZeroPaid.
Another big threat to p2p users is the adware if you dont have antivirus software due to the problems it poses.
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