Taiwan Approves Three-Strikes Law
© 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."
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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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