<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I’ve been running an exit relay for about 3 days and, sure enough, some BitTorrent bugger caused <a href="http://sh3lls.net">sh3lls.net</a> to send me a DMCA nastygram:<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">We have got the following complain, please remove all illegal torrents immediately from your server:</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Evidentiary Information</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Title: Suits (TV)</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Infringement Source: BitTorrent</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Initial Infringement Timestamp: 17 Oct 2013 22:06:17 GMT Recent Infringement Timestamp: 17 Oct 2013 22:06:17 GMT Infringing Filename: Suits Season 3 Episode 6 (The Other Time) (HDTV x264)-ASAP (1GBps SeedBox).mp4 URL if applicable: </span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Infringing File size: 364405400</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Infringers IP Address: 64.32.14.34</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Bay ID: 7fbb4256bfca558d5a809b9f6536b5fd5e4e782d|364405400</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Port ID: 33788</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I followed through with the templates provided by the Tor Project as a response to the DMCA takedown notification. A day later, the ISP sent me this:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 246, 255);">Dear Christopher</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 246, 255);">Whether you run Tor or not, we even told you in past, it's your responsibility to stop all abuse</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 246, 255);">If Tor is causing it, stop the program Tor on your server, if we get another complain we will have to suspend/terminate your services</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 246, 255);">tor always always gets lots and lots of abuse and complains</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 246, 255);">Update us within 24 hours</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(238, 246, 255);">Thanks</span></blockquote><br></div><div>I was never provided with the full text of the original DMCA complaint, so I was unable to respond. Furthermore, I was never “even told…in the past” that I had to stop all abuse caused by Tor. Tor is not singled out in the ToS or AUP. And I was certainly never told anything in the past about abuse and Tor specifically. As I said, first warning. Then there’s the “tor always always gets lots and lots of abuse and complains [sic]”. Which is kind of bizarre, because their position on tor seems a bit cagey. Does the claim about lots of abuse mean they won’t allow exit nodes? Or is that just a “hint” that I’d be better off not trying to run it? </div><div><br></div><div>And this is an ISP I picked from the good list.</div><div><br></div><div>Suggestions are welcome. I’m running with the default exit node policy, which should block most of the abuse-laden ports. BitTorrent’s a little harder to deal with. I’ve no qualms working with the ISP to mitigate their concerns, but I’m not sensing their returning the same spirit of cooperation.</div><div><br></div><div>.cpj</div></body></html>