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Re: copyright infringement notices volume
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:55:36 -0400
On 9/17/10 7:15 AM, John Ladwig wrote:
I *had* meant to send my policy query only to Jeff but given the sudden but inevitable betrayal by my MUA, I'm interested in BT control policies, as some I've seen apply to bulk-transfer only, and others apply to control and discovery traffic. Do you do full-block or radically-degraded service, etc?
For the purposes of avoiding DMCA notifications, I believe a full-block is required. This would be a firewall rule on the Packetlogic, and the PL is clever enough to handle those clients that would respond by switching to well-known ports like 80 or 53...
It occurs to me that blocking BT via bulk-transfer policies without also limiting tracker and other discovery traffic may net one the worst of both worlds;users grumpy about not being able to transfer fiels, *and* DMCA notices due to uncontrolled tracker traffic.
If you cannot block all BT communications but file-transfers are effectively denied, you could still respond to DMCA notifications with a form letter to that effect without having to perform an individual takedown. -- Best regards -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password! www.calfrye.com, www.oberlin.edu/cit/ "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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