Hi, After running our 300MBit/s Tor node for less than a week, the US data center Softlayer has forced me to limit our exit policy to well-known ports after receiving 25 automated Torrent DMCA complaints this weekend and again more than 20 in the last two days. I hope that now that the policy is restricted they will allow the node to stay up.
All these complaints list pretty much the same Torrents, have been issued by MediaSentry or BayTSP, and each offers to get back to them on changing email addresses and through a web form. For each single abuse case, I have tried to reach them to tell them about the node and its background, including the offer to block on IP/Port basis and the URL to EFF's legal page, but they didn't get back to me and didn't stop the spamming. I even filed a counter notification with written signature etc. It's frightening to see how easy it is to effectively shut down any server at large ISPs such as Softlayer by just repeatedly sending the same - possibly unjustified - complaints. If you know of any Tor-friendly ISPs with large bandwidth plans, please let me know. -- Moritz Bartl http://www.torservers.net/ http://anonymizer2.torservers.net/ (stats) *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/