On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:58:57PM -0500, Bill Weiss wrote: > My apologies if there's some canonical source for this I'm missing. I > didn't see anything in the archives of the list for the last couple of > months, and I don't remember seeing anything like this any time recently. >... > My soon-to-be-former dedicated hosting company, 1&1, has informed me they > are terminating my account at the end of this billing cycle (~1 month). > The reason for this is repeated DMCA notices about my tor node (clanspum). > I didn't get much warning about this. There have been a total of 5 > (including the one with the "get lost" note attached) forwarded to me by > their legal department at a rate of about one per month. I don't know > what started this trend, as I hadn't had one in the 3+ years before that > running an exit on one of their machines. https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/GoodBadISPs Please fee free to update that page under the appropriate region heading if your ex-ISP is not listed. Laws and practice and availability vary quite a bit with country and ISP. I think there was an ISP policy comparison project underway but i cannot find the reference atm.
See also this blog posting for prevention of problems in future: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-minimal-harassment FWIW i also get about one abuse notice a month for my node that carries about 300KB/s or 1.6TB/month. They have been about DMCA, spam, and IRC. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
