Re: [tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-28 Thread Jon
When I started, after about 1 month, I started getting calls from my provider about the claims of downloading certain music and movies. In their TOS, they could shut me down from use if it continued and I did not do anything. I asked what port was being used and what was allegedly downloaded. Th

Re: [tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-28 Thread adrelanos
george torwell: Well, it's a smart question. I don't think it has been asked before. No similar cases have ever been discussed. That's why you probable won't get a clear solution here. > adrelanos: maybe that could get me in trouble for not doing enough to help > the rights holder? I don't know

Re: [tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-27 Thread george torwell
thanks everyone! Julian Yon: perhaps they can force me to log the ip of every bit torrent user and hand it over? not the relay it was coming from, the original ip that used bit torrent. adrelanos: maybe that could get me in trouble for not doing enough to help the rights holder? andrew: thanks,

Re: [tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-27 Thread andrew
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 06:43:56PM -0400, bpmcont...@gmail.com wrote 0.7K bytes in 15 lines about: : Any lawyers in the audience? See https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en for the advice from the EFF lawyers. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-27 Thread adrelanos
INAL This is an interesting question. george torwell: > Hi guys, I have a quick question regarding the following blog entry: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/top-changes-tor-2004-design-paper-part-2 > > the last part states that Bit-torrent traffic can be trivially identified > to originate at

Re: [tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-27 Thread Julian Yon
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:43:56 -0400 george torwell wrote: > As an exit node operator, I get those annoying infringement notices, > and up until now I've just replied with a polite 'nothing I can do'. > Does this change anything? Can I be forced to help with identifying > such a user? Is it their f

[tor-talk] legal status

2012-10-27 Thread george torwell
Hi guys, I have a quick question regarding the following blog entry: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/top-changes-tor-2004-design-paper-part-2 the last part states that Bit-torrent traffic can be trivially identified to originate at the user's ip. As an exit node operator, I get those annoying inf