Re: copyright infringement notices volume

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

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.

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