Re: Need help with MPAA threats

[Hannah Schroeter <hannah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:04:55AM +0100, David Kammering wrote:
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>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.

But in the end, the situation is all the same for HTTP(S) as for BT. BT
can (and *is*) used for legal content. E.g. I've already pulled (and
redistributed, i.e. contributed) OpenBSD *legally* via bittorrent (of
course not via tor). OTOH, you can use http(s) for illegal content, too.
Especially via ssl.

And, if I see things right, the bandwidth argument doesn't compute.
IIRC, only the client<->tracker traffic is relayed via tor, and that's
not the mass traffic of the actual big files. That's different when you
pull big files via http(s) which you keep allowing (and big files also
encompasses just bloated web sites with tons of inline and background
images, or even flash stuff or whatever).

Kind regards,

Hannah.