[tor-relays] Thanks for the advice on handling DMCA complaints.

Moritz Bartl moritz at torservers.net
Sat Oct 26 22:12:58 UTC 2013


Hi Christopher,

We published a collection of DMCA complaints we received at
https://www.torservers.net/wiki/abuse/dmca . It did not get any
attention, but I could compile an updated version if useful. In general,
I don't see much need to track abuse complaints. The companies change a
bit over time, and communication with them is hardly possible.

I thought about publishing more data about the complaints we receive in
general, but it would need to be done carefully. Just publishing number
of complaints might be misleading, and could well be used in a campaign
against Tor. I would want data from regular ISPs to compare, and it
would have to account for the amount of traffic pushed. A number like "I
receive 100 DMCA complaints per day" does not mean anything if you don't
put it in relationship to the total throughput and exit policy.

ISPs outside the US should know that there is absolutely no legal
requirement to act upon DMCA complaints. Within the US, I believe they
are required to forward them to the customer. We are talking about
infringement notices, not takedown notices.

> One more question and I’ll probably feel stupid after reading the
> answers, but does “RelayBandwidthRate” apply separately to rx and tx
> rates or the combined throughput of them both?

https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en

"If not 0, a separate token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth
usage for _relayed traffic_ on this node to the specified number of
bytes per second, and the average outgoing bandwidth usage to that same
value."

So, it accounts for rx and tx separately.

> The server I run has an unmetered 100Mb/s connection. I’ve got
> RelayBandwidthRate set to 5MB and RelayBandwidthBurst set to 10MB.
> 12.5MB/s being the theoretical max, if I bumped up my bandwidth rate
> to, say, 8, would my relay overload the NIC or would it continue to
> behave?

It should. If it is unmetered 100 Mbit/s, why not set it to 10MB? :-)

Moritz


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