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

lee colleton lee at colleton.net
Wed Oct 12 19:48:54 UTC 2016


I've had a string of requests from Linode support staff that I block access
to certain IP addresses. They've restricted traffic to my exit node several
times when I've been slow to respond to their requests.

--Lee

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Sarah Alawami <marrie12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keeping an eye on things. Support asked me how I would prevent the
> copyright material from being accessed or even gotten to on the server. I
> gave them something about firewalls and keeping an eye on ports and
> blocking unnecessary ones. They will close the case after 48 hours of no
> complaints. This as of Friday so we'll see.
>
> Thanks all.
> > On Aug 23, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Dave Warren <davew at hireahit.com> wrote:
> >
> > That is not a DMCA complaint, a complaint under the DMCA is required to
> > be specific, and reports are made under oath and penalty of perjury that
> > the complainer owns the copyright for the item in question.
> >
> > However, your host may not be passing on all the details to you, that's
> > a matter of discussion between yourself and your host.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> >> 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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