[tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

[bartels]

Forgive my ignorance, I am new to tor and learning.
On closer inspection, I find that bittorrent can run over the tor network, like any other traffic.
Personally, I cannot afford complaints and spend time on legal issues; however groundless they may be it is not what I do.

It leaves me with a question: how do the Paramount people know that my server carried their stuff?
Did they download it themselves, or do they have their own bittorrent servers?
They must be at either end, or am I mistaken?

Another thing is filtering on bittorrent. The tor site suggests a filter:
     https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/BlockingBittorrent

Looking at it, I find it slightly flawed, because of the port numbers.
Instead of using this:
     wget -qO- http://www.trackon.org/api/all | awk -F/ ' { print $3 }'

I would use:
     wget -qO- http://www.trackon.org/api/all | awk -F: '{ print $2 }' | awk -F/ ' { print $3 }'

It would explain why only most bittorrent traffic is blocked.
Can anybody confirm this? I don't want to be the newbie messing up someone else's wiki.

- Bartels



On 04/09/2013 11:21 AM, bartels wrote:
> Hello Mo,
>
> Thanks for answering. My question was not really clear, but the issue is resolved anyway.
> The server was hacked and is re-installed.
> So, nothing to do with tor; the exit relay is up and running again.
>
> - Bartels
>
>
> On 04/09/2013 10:21 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Most countries have liability exemptions for passing traffic. There is
>> no legal obligation to shut down or anything.
>>
>> See also
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorExitGuidelines .
>>
>> What is your question exactly?
>>
>> --Mo
>>
>> On 08.04.2013 18:28, bartels wrote:
>>> Hi People,
>>>
>>> Two days ago I opened two fast tor exit relays v2.3 on debian wheezy.
>>> Now I get complaints from paramount that I have unwittingly distributed
>>> Hansel and Gretel via BitTorrent
>>>
>>> <Port>39585</Port>
>>> <Type>BitTorrent</Type>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can this be linked to tor, or is that impossible?
>>> I don't want to shut down tor for no reason.
>>>
>>> - Bartels.
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