Hi,
On 15/07/18 17:23, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote:
I'm just curious on what thoughts on this are. I know how to technically perform the block, I guess I feel like we're one of the last bastions against censorship on the Internet and people do torrent legitimate stuff. I don't consider pirating Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V, Sweetbitter, and The Evil Within 2 to be protected speech FYI... my worry is just blocking the legitimate uses of bittorrent.
Tor is designed in such a way that you can separately decide whether or not you want to contribute to the network, and also whether or not you are willing to deal with abuse notices. This is configured via exit policies.
If abuse is threatening the continued running of your relay, then you should take action to avoid not having a relay anymore.
There is a page on the wiki about various reduced exit policies that will reduce the amount of abuse notices your relay may attract:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy
Exit policies are the way to configure this. Please do not try to filter specific uses of a protocol using DPI. Application-level filtering/firewalls is a good way to get the BadExit flag.
Thanks, Iain.