Hi Christopher,
We published a collection of DMCA complaints we received at https://www.torservers.net/wiki/abuse/dmca . It did not get any attention, but I could compile an updated version if useful. In general, I don't see much need to track abuse complaints. The companies change a bit over time, and communication with them is hardly possible.
I thought about publishing more data about the complaints we receive in general, but it would need to be done carefully. Just publishing number of complaints might be misleading, and could well be used in a campaign against Tor. I would want data from regular ISPs to compare, and it would have to account for the amount of traffic pushed. A number like "I receive 100 DMCA complaints per day" does not mean anything if you don't put it in relationship to the total throughput and exit policy.
ISPs outside the US should know that there is absolutely no legal requirement to act upon DMCA complaints. Within the US, I believe they are required to forward them to the customer. We are talking about infringement notices, not takedown notices.
One more question and I’ll probably feel stupid after reading the answers, but does “RelayBandwidthRate” apply separately to rx and tx rates or the combined throughput of them both?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
"If not 0, a separate token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth usage for _relayed traffic_ on this node to the specified number of bytes per second, and the average outgoing bandwidth usage to that same value."
So, it accounts for rx and tx separately.
The server I run has an unmetered 100Mb/s connection. I’ve got RelayBandwidthRate set to 5MB and RelayBandwidthBurst set to 10MB. 12.5MB/s being the theoretical max, if I bumped up my bandwidth rate to, say, 8, would my relay overload the NIC or would it continue to behave?
It should. If it is unmetered 100 Mbit/s, why not set it to 10MB? :-)
Moritz