...and because Taiwan has weak enforcement of foreign intellectual property laws, that automatically makes the market orders of magnitude more unfriendly for small, indie, creators. Small, artists would find that piracy in the Taiwanese marketplace deprives them of their ability to make a living off their work.

Taiwan may be a small enough market that it may not cause a huge impact on foreign copyright holders, but the idea that intellectual property can be done away with is ludicrous, and simply not generalizable. Just as with computers, scalability is an issue for artists as well. A writer who wants to work full time on writing needs to make enough money to support herself. The same goes for a musician, a graphic designer, or any other field where people make their living off IP. If IP is taken away, creation becomes a privilege only for those who can convince large corporations to invest in them, with the hope that they'll make enough money through the sheer quantity of mass distribution; mere mortals generally couldn't independently scale from the amateur to the semi-pro / pro stage without needing to sell out. The Internet may revolutionize the means of mass distribution, but no magic bullet has yet been invented to so revolutionize means of support.