Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-04 Thread doc.kuehn
Jan Suhr schrieb: > Hi doc! > We, the German Privacy Foundation, regularly receive several of such > requests regarding file sharing. Usually we reply the requestor > explaining that the IP address belongs to one of our Tor servers. Also > we explain what Tor is and that we don't have any logs thus

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-04 Thread Jan Suhr
Hi doc! We, the German Privacy Foundation, regularly receive several of such requests regarding file sharing. Usually we reply the requestor explaining that the IP address belongs to one of our Tor servers. Also we explain what Tor is and that we don't have any logs thus could not answer their requ

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-02 Thread Jirka Svoboda
Well.. the Czech government passed a law which is called "on certain services of information society" (in Czech of course :) and has a very similar text to the Directive, in 2004. However dont know if it was an obligation. Greetings, J. Svoboda Attac Heidenheim napsal(a): Hallo, this EU-dir

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-02 Thread Attac Heidenheim
Hallo, this EU-directive really sounds like beeing written just for Tor-Nodes ! But the question for me is: Are the EU-countries forced to implement ("harmonize") those directives (its from the year 2000 and I've never heard of it) ? Or is it just a "wish" like human rights, and the EU-mebers can

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-02 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:27:21 +0200 Jirka Svoboda wrote: >In time past I have riceived some infringement notices so I have already >done some research into legal status of proxies. > >To my knowledge, the most significant document to this topic is the >Directive of the Council 2000/31/EC "on

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-02 Thread Jirka Svoboda
Greetings! In time past I have riceived some infringement notices so I have already done some research into legal status of proxies. To my knowledge, the most significant document to this topic is the Directive of the Council 2000/31/EC "on certain legal aspects of information society servic

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-01 Thread doc.kuehn
mai...@onlinemedia1.com schrieb: > Am Samstag, den 01.08.2009, 01:35 +0300 schrieb Robas, Teodor: > > >> Until now, it only looks like they might want to make some money by >> scarring or intimidating you. Be strong and do not give up your rights. >> >> >> Teodor >> >> > > That is also wha

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-08-01 Thread doc.kuehn
Robas, Teodor schrieb: > doc.kuehn wrote: >> Hello! >> the idea behind this question is to say to the >> lawyer 'hey, i was running a tor exit node'. Sure, this is no excuse, >> but perhaps this helps me to save some money they want from me. > > I think *they* will have to prove that that material

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-07-31 Thread mai...@onlinemedia1.com
Am Samstag, den 01.08.2009, 01:35 +0300 schrieb Robas, Teodor: > Until now, it only looks like they might want to make some money by > scarring or intimidating you. Be strong and do not give up your rights. > > > Teodor > That is also what I am thinking. to doc.kuehn: You do not mention the

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-07-31 Thread Robas, Teodor
doc.kuehn wrote: Hello! the idea behind this question is to say to the lawyer 'hey, i was running a tor exit node'. Sure, this is no excuse, but perhaps this helps me to save some money they want from me. I think *they* will have to prove that that material was downloaded by *you* and you have

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-07-31 Thread doc.kuehn
Thanks for your useful advice regarding CCC and the link to the archive from the server descriptors. Hope this might help.

Re: copyright abuse through tor

2009-07-31 Thread Andrew Lewman
On 07/31/2009 03:07 PM, doc.kuehn wrote: > Today i received a letter from a german lawyer's office due a copyright > abuse regarding a music album, shared via p2p. > I never downloaded such a music album, nor i use any p2p applications. I > think this happens over my tor-node, acting as a exit node

copyright abuse through tor

2009-07-31 Thread doc.kuehn
Hello! I'm not sure if this belongs to the mailing list, so sorry if this ist the wrong place to ask. Today i received a letter from a german lawyer's office due a copyright abuse regarding a music album, shared via p2p. I never downloaded such a music album, nor i use any p2p applications. I thin