I currently have 4 non-exit's with DigitalOcean providing approximately 160mb/s of bandwidth. They've been up for about a month now and I've not run into any issues with DigitalOcean staff.
With that in mind - I also had an exit up for about a month and I never heard anything from them either (just comply with DMCA/etc.) and provide the url that Moritz has given; they haven't ever questioned it.
I'm excited to be an operator!
Thanks, Stracci Systems Admin www.mcbans.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Moritz Bartl" moritz@torservers.net To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:02:12 PM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] new relays
On 22.08.2013 15:45, a432511 wrote:
I just spun up 2 relays (1 exit, 1 non-exit) in Amsterdam using DigitalOcean as the VPS provider. It's been up for about 8 hours now.
Thank you and good luck!
While in the future there may be a precedent that grants safe-harbor status to TOR exit nodes, there is no such precedent under US Law at this time and the responsibility remains with you.
You might want to point them to https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html.en , which was written by EFF lawyers specifically about US law.
"[...] Therefore, you should continue to be protected under the DMCA 512(a) safe harbor without taking any further action."