dmca takedown, was: Recommended VPS ISPs?

[Moritz Bartl]

Hi,

> I tried not allowing exit connections to IPs assigned by ARIN
> [...] but it didn't seem to help much at reducing DMCA complaints.

That's not what I tried to say. I had a 50mbit/s exit node IN Holland 
with open exit policy and never once received any complaints, because 
the DMCA hunt for "source IPs" is happening country based. But now that 
you say they still deliver their spam to countries where they just don't 
have any lawful basis to do it whatsoever, I think my ISP just filtered 
them (and that's what any Non-DMCA-Country ISP should do).

In Germany, a similar law is in place, but there still seem to be a lot 
less companies doing automated scans of tracker IP connections. Olaf 
with his German node said he receives only single complaints every once 
in a while, and not massive DMCA spam.

I would also scrape trackers for connecting IPs, then run them through a 
country IP filter, but they seem to be doing more checks than that: In 
my case (and a lot of exit traffic) DMCA complaints stopped completely 
after I changed exit policy and blocked random ports (while I do still 
allow port 80 connections, and that includes trackers).

Moritz