[tor-relays] BitTorrent complaint

Steve Snyder swsnyder at snydernet.net
Wed Apr 10 20:35:27 UTC 2013



On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:42pm, "Jorge-Leon" <jorge-tor at magma.com.ni> said:
[snip]
> 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?

I would advise, again, just to use the Reduced Exit Policy.  I never get DCMA/copyright complaints.  Most of the complaints I get are due to morons port-scanning through Tor, or from webmail spamming.




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