On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Nagaev Boris bnagaev@gmail.com wrote:
I think that modern copyright lays violate non aggression principle, which includes free speech.
As I agree, which is why I typically ignored such threats until my provider started enforcing said threats.
Rationale. Skip this paragraph if you already agree with the above statement. When a person buys a hard drive they become an owner of it. Of all its parts, including parts happen to be Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V, Sweetbitter, and The Evil Within 2. Another person establishes a private communication channel between their hard drive and the first person's hard drive. The line between them is private, hard drives are private property of these two people => any intervention of force into this voluntarily interaction is an aggression.
If one agrees that copyright laws are incompatible with free speech and are immoral, then he has to admit that all solutions including Tor are technical, not fundamental. Thus the "quality" of a solution is based not on morality but on technical properties (e.g. how much data is transmitted, how many people can use it, etc). Free speech considerations are not a measure at this point. If to continue providing the service the node has to drop some connections is the lesser evil to be accepted. You can compare it with treating an incurable disease: you can not fix the problem in a right way but you can reduce the suffering and increase life time of the patient.
Thank you for your very thoughtful answer. I just implemented the first choice in the ReducedExit policies in my exits to try to block the bittorrent threat from taking service away from everyone else.