On 01/20/2014 05:08 PM, tor@gmx.info wrote:
I have set up a tor relay with no exit functionality yet. Having read through the documentation and general legal hints, I am still unsure of the legal situation in Germany. Are there some of you guys who had contact with hosting providers because of abuse claims? Is there anything you can share? Are pure relays safe to use or are the hosting providers still clueless?
Non-exit relays consume bandwidth. That's all they do, and depending on the ISP that alone might be something they don't like, especially those with "unlimited/unmetered" cheap VPS. Apart from that, hosting providers can and should stay "clueless" about what you do.
For exits, see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines