[tor-talk] sadly have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours

Sarah Alawami marrie12 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 18:12:01 UTC 2016


No, the DMCA was not specific. That's all they told me was that copyright material were going through the vps and  I was breaking the TOS.
> On Aug 22, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Sarah Alawami:
>> Hello to all. Sadly I have to shut down my tor relay after less then 24 hours, as I received a copyright violation and I don't want any network restrictions  placed on me as I want the 150mbps speed.
>> 
>> Sorry to all who were using it, but yeah there it is.
> 
> Was this a DMCA takedown related to bittorrent traffic? When I ran an
> exit, I had a lot of luck with this policy:
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
> 
> Basically restricting yourself to core internet services reduces the
> chances that bittorrent clients choose a port from the policy. With a
> 1Gbit exit and that policy, I went from 60 DMCA notices a day down to 0
> over the life of the exit (about 3 years).
> 
> Unless something new is happening? Did the complaint(s) give specifics
> about the location and type of infringing content that was accessed?
> 
> More services are always better. I've been thinking about making that
> policy into a torrc option, so it would be useful to know if the
> situation has changed.
> 
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