[tor-relays] Abuse Complaints

[Nathaniel Suchy]

Almost never if you use the reduced exit policy or the browser only policy
(only allowing 80,443,53).

Now, If you leave all ports open like Conrad and I do on most of our
relays, a copyright enforcement company called Irdeto USA (the same people
behind Denuvo Game DRM) will send you threats and harassment, ignore your
replies, and contact upstreams directly rather than the contact on the SWIP
Record - be rich and get your own ASN to get around this. Now, Irdeto's
business strategy is a simple one they need only to flood your ISP's abuse
department with as many automated DMCA Emails as possible until they get
too many to ever hope to respond to and then try to get them to terminate
your account. Depending on the ISP it'll work.

Cordially,
Nathaniel Suchy

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:49 AM Ralph Seichter <m16+tor at monksofcool.net>
wrote:

> On 29.08.2018 12:48, John Ricketts wrote:
>
> > For the non-automated emails I reply each time.
>
> Same here. At one time I had written a generator script that fills in
> details of the complaining party, like IP addresses, and adds general
> descriptions about what Tor is, with links to facilitate further
> reading. Only very rarely the generated reply was not enough to satisfy
> or at least placate the complaining party. Unfortunately I can't seem
> find my script any more.
>
> Automated complaints are a different matter. I don't feel the need to
> converse with Fail2ban or WebIron bots.
>
> -Ralph
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