Re: Need help with MPAA threats

[David Kammering <david.kammering@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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tor user schrieb:

>> Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating that any relay inspect any
>> traffic, 
> Do you mean you want a way to *automatically*, without
> recording/logging/inspecting personally, deny certain traffic and
> allow other? (but isn't that censorship anyway?)

I beg to differ...If one really filters on content level what will be
relayed and what to block you're right. But (dis-)allowing certain
traffic via ExitPolicies is no real censorship to me. See, I don't care
what is relayed via my node on Port 80 for example, but I am just able
to keep Bittorrent traffic down with more resticted policies...which
results in much higher node speed and traffic volume left to burn for
the "not filesharing-"users.


>> just that illegal traffic transiting outside my link could land me
>> in trouble.
> If you are in a condition where your traffic can get you into trouble
> with the ruling class, then please don't run an exit. But trying to
> pick-and-choose the traffic you want to allow is not helping to
> frustrate censorship, in fact it is promoting it.

See above. I don't think choosing more restrictive exitpolicies could be
called cencorship as even the Tor network will route the via exitpolicy
blocked requests through other nodes as long as you don't block on ip
level via iptables or something similar Tor wouldn't know about.

After all, a running Exitnode relaying on the "standard" ports like HTTP
seems to be (for me) better than a completely switched off node because
of legal troubles regarding file sharing.


YT,
David

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