On 9/25/18 12:02 AM, tor-markus wrote:
the second abuse ticket reached Contabo yesterday about my service. They now threaten to take down the server when the next ticket arrives so I had to shutdown the Exit Relay (I will reconfigure it as normal relay tomorrow). I requested to have a phone call with the Contabo Abuse department to figure out a solution because Germany now provides the legal grounds to operate a tor relay with (little to) no liability.
If I find a solution with Contabo I'll keep you updated.
It is most likely that they just don't want it, not for legal risks but because of the work of processing complaints and the risk of ending up on blacklists.
I am picking this up because I am not sure what you mean by "Germany now provides the legal grounds", because it always has, and it is dangerous and misleading to use the recent discussions around liability of shared internet access (open wifi, freifunk etc) -- you do not fall into that category and you should stay out of it, it is only around ACCESS providers.
An exit operator does not provide "access", users need another point of entry into the network. You want to stay out of Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG) and stick to the regulations of Telemediengesetz (TMG), as a service provided "outside/on top of" Internet access. In that space, exclusion of liability for carriers of traffic is uncontroversial and not a new thing.
Most relevant sections of TMG:
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tmg/__8.html -> you are not liable https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tmg/__15.html -> you are not ALLOWED to store user identifiers unless you need it for billing purposes
ยง8 is a good argument for not filtering traffic either, because the law requires you to not interfere with forwarded traffic.
There's a section in the "Exit Guidelines" document listing relevant laws for various jurisdictions: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines#Legal
Good luck!