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Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by ThePhysicist on Monday July 13, 2020 @01:33PM (#23823298)
I remember getting an abuse warning from Hetzner as one of our employees was seeding (legal) files via a p2p file sharing framework (IPFS I think?) and the client on his machine sent out broadcast and port scanning requests over the VPN into our Hetzner infrastructure. Hetzner is quite nice in that they dont' immediately block your servers, other providers are less lenient though and such stuff can quickly get your infrastructure to be taken down, especially if you're not an "important" customer of your hoster. I think after you reach a certain scale you can't stop this from happening easily, so it's good to either block such stuff via the firewall or have good audit logs.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by Reelin on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:26PM (#23826837)
I don't understand what's wrong with port scanning or broadcasting to your own infrastructure that you pay for?
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by dylz on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:08AM (#23830184)
You don't own the rest of the stuff that's in the middle. Permission first.
Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent by jsjohnst on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:08PM (#23827144)
Read the terms of service for most cloud and data center providers. You have to notify them and get permission.