[tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

[Jorge-Leon]

On 10.04.13 12:35, Moritz Bartl wrote:
...
>> Another thing is filtering on bittorrent. The tor site suggests a filter:
>>      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/BlockingBittorrent
> Just because it is in the community wiki, it is not something you should
> do, or an official Tor recommendation. I would advise heavily against
> anything that blocks connections outside of the official ExitPolicy
> statements. Clients will become unreliable, and have no way of knowing
> what happened to their connection.
>
> The quoted snippet blocks connections to trackers, but not torrenting
> itself. One of the most popular sites, ThePirateBay, does not even rely
> on trackers any more. Apart from that, blocking trackers will also hurt
> legal torrenting.
>
> ...
Oh! I too use the filter as in "BlockingBittorrent".

I did not want to restrict my relay to the "ReducedExitPolicy". Almost all
complaints were Bittorrent related.  So I hoped "BlockingBittorent" would be
the right ting to do.

- should the "BlockingBittorrent" recipe be changed in a way, that it 
changes
    the exit policy of the relay instead of the firewall?

- How to block torrents from ThePirateBay anyway?

- Is there a way to block any bittorrent traffic?

Regards,

     Jorge-León