[tor-relays] Configuring a Tor relay to *not* accept torrent traffic

Konstantinos Asimakis inshame at gmail.com
Sun May 20 18:23:43 UTC 2012


That will not help in my opinion. Some user will be able to contact the
trackers through another exit node and then start connecting to peers
through your tracker to download the actual data. If RIAA is faking peers
and then waits for people to connect to them, then you will still be acused
of illegal file sharing. You will still appear as a torrent user. You just
won't appear on most tracker lists but IIRC they always accuse you after
you actually connect to them for sharing and not just because you were on a
tracker scrape...

Cheers.

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:39 AM, tor-admin <tor-admin at torland.me> wrote:

> Red Rover <redrover2592 at gmail.com> wrote on 17.05.2012:
> > Hi there, :-)
> >
> > I am running a Tor relay on a VPS.
> >
> > How do I configure it to NOT accept torrent traffic?
> >
> > I have just received an abuse report from my hosting company.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Redrover
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> using a small python script I retrieved the TOP-100 trackers from
> www.torrentking.org and added them to torrc. I never got any DCMA report.
>
> Regards,
>
> torland
>
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