I am a student in Taiwan National CHeng kung University (NCKU), my classmates didn't trade the MP3s or Sold them illegally. What they did is download the files from WWW all over the world, and listened to them, just like other users in other countries on internet. They didn't attmpt to make any money from the MP3s. They still buy good leagal CDs from stores. But there is one more thing specaial in Taiwan: In Taiwan, not all of the songs in the same CD are equally good, in fact, lot parts of the CD contain old songs that have existed in previous CDs for many times. For this reason, students usually buy good CDs only after fully understand what exactlly inside the CD. This is another particular reason why MP3 is so popular in Taiwan.
If you have the interest about the truth, I can tell you two more things:
Why the companies in America accused Napster, and the ones in Taiwan accused students? Because in Taiwan, the undergroud-organizations (like the ones in the movie,"God Father".......please excuse my poor English) are very powerful, no matter how many times these organization are claimed to be hunted, they still exist there and own the business about selling-illegal CDs years after years. So the companies changed their objects to the little poor students.
The other funny thing is the way the Tainan District Prosecutor used to hunted students down: He claimed that "one brother of the students" wrote an anonymous black latter something like "My brother is a student in this university and spents all his time on internet, so please help my little brother......"to the Prosecutor.(Will you impeach your brother just for his decadent life style and make him live with a serious crimal record in the rest of his own life?) So for this Prosecutor's own holy almighty duty, he ordered a policeman to intrude in one of our dormitory without legal warrant, and found that some students have unknown-source (the policeman didn't ask about this) Chinese MP3s in their computers, and report this to the Prosecutor. 1 hours later, the Prosecutor led a group of policemen and searched every room in the building. They brought (or I should use kepped here) all the computers only if there were unknown-source (again, they didn't ask about this) Chinese MP3s inside. This terrible horror spread out between students, and all students became so panic because we didn't know what exactly they hunted for (What if they found the Chinese MP3 which just created by my friend?) I don't want my computer be kepped because I have an important report in my computer waited to be send to my teacher which my final scores of this session depends on. All I can do is remove the hard disk and get out the dormitory as fast as I can just like my grandfather absconded from Main Land China After the Republic of China government lost the battle against Chinese Communist Party in 1947. All students were just like refugees, hopeless,so helpless.
Is this funny? No...... It is a nightmare, in every students' deep mind, just of because an unreasonable anonymous letter and a rough action......
A student in Taiwan National Cheng Kung University
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I am a student in Taiwan National CHeng kung University (NCKU), my classmates didn't trade the MP3s or Sold them illegally. What they did is download the files from WWW all over the world, and listened to them, just like other users in other countries on internet. They didn't attmpt to make any money from the MP3s. They still buy good leagal CDs from stores. But there is one more thing specaial in Taiwan: In Taiwan, not all of the songs in the same CD are equally good, in fact, lot parts of the CD contain old songs that have existed in previous CDs for many times. For this reason, students usually buy good CDs only after fully understand what exactlly inside the CD. This is another particular reason why MP3 is so popular in Taiwan. If you have the interest about the truth, I can tell you two more things: Why the companies in America accused Napster, and the ones in Taiwan accused students? Because in Taiwan, the undergroud-organizations (like the ones in the movie,"God Father" .......please excuse my poor English) are very powerful, no matter how many times these organization are claimed to be hunted, they still exist there and own the business about selling-illegal CDs years after years. So the companies changed their objects to the little poor students.
The other funny thing is the way the Tainan District Prosecutor used to hunted students down: He claimed that "one brother of the students" wrote an anonymous black latter something like "My brother is a student in this university and spents all his time on internet, so please help my little brother......"to the Prosecutor.(Will you impeach your brother just for his decadent life style and make him live with a serious crimal record in the rest of his own life?) So for this Prosecutor's own holy almighty duty, he ordered a policeman to intrude in one of our dormitory without legal warrant, and found that some students have unknown-source (the policeman didn't ask about this) Chinese MP3s in their computers, and report this to the Prosecutor. 1 hours later, the Prosecutor led a group of policemen and searched every room in the building. They brought (or I should use kepped here) all the computers only if there were unknown-source (again, they didn't ask about this) Chinese MP3s inside. This terrible horror spread out between students, and all students became so panic because we didn't know what exactly they hunted for (What if they found the Chinese MP3 which just created by my friend?) I don't want my computer be kepped because I have an important report in my computer waited to be send to my teacher which my final scores of this session depends on. All I can do is remove the hard disk and get out the dormitory as fast as I can just like my grandfather absconded from Main Land China After the Republic of China government lost the battle against Chinese Communist Party in 1947. All students were just like refugees, hopeless,so helpless.
Is this funny? No...... It is a nightmare, in every students' deep mind, just of because an unreasonable anonymous letter and a rough action......
A student in Taiwan National Cheng Kung University