[tor-relays-universities] Preventing access to scientific databases

[Leonid Reyzin]

Our exit node at BU is on a subnet that's treated as being outside the
campus network, which solves this problem as well as the problem of using
Tor to circumvent the campus firewall.  Alternatively, back when we were
inside the campus network, we forbid exiting to campus addresses in order
to solve this problem for non-third-party sites (but not for third-party
sites), as well as firewall circumvention problem.


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Philipp Winter <phw at nymity.ch> wrote:

> At Karlstad University, we recently got permission to operate an exit
> relay.
> One item on our "to do" list is how we should handle databases such as IEEE
> Xplore.  Our university has several subscriptions meaning that our net
> block is
> whitelisted to have access to the databases of different publishers.
> Unfortunately, we cannot allow users of our exit node to access these
> databases
> as we would risk violating copyright.
>
> Possible solutions are:
> - Blacklist the publisher's net blocks in our relay's exit policy.
> - Put our relay's IP address in a non-whitelisted net block.
> - Do nothing and risk getting sued?
>
> How is this handled elsewhere?
>
> Cheers,
> Philipp
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