On 09.04.2013 18:04, bartels wrote:
Personally, I cannot afford complaints and spend time on legal issues; however groundless they may be it is not what I do.
Spending time on "legal issues" is part of the job of an exit operator. Sorry.
DMCA notices are totally harmless.
Another thing is filtering on bittorrent. The tor site suggests a filter: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/BlockingBittorrent
Just because it is in the community wiki, it is not something you should do, or an official Tor recommendation. I would advise heavily against anything that blocks connections outside of the official ExitPolicy statements. Clients will become unreliable, and have no way of knowing what happened to their connection.
The quoted snippet blocks connections to trackers, but not torrenting itself. One of the most popular sites, ThePirateBay, does not even rely on trackers any more. Apart from that, blocking trackers will also hurt legal torrenting.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
Must say it is a pretty loose list. I do not see the point in accessing a squid proxy server over tor. It sort of defeats the purpose.
Maybe you don't, but other users do.
The reduced exit policy blocks most "random" ports, which is what Bittorrent clients use for connections. This means it will drastically reduce the amount of DMCA notices you will receive.
You are free to allow an even more limited amount of ports on your exits.