remove the tor challenge link at the bottom, update the tor-dmca-template to the shiny new one from eff.
Andrew Lewman

Andrew Lewman commited on 2011-09-16 04:26:27
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-<h2>Response template for Tor relay maintainer to ISP</h2>
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+<h2>Response template for Tor relay operator to ISP</h2>
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-<p>Written by the Electronic Frontier
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-Foundation (<a href="http://www.eff.org/">EFF</a>). Last updated 19 Feb 2005.</p>
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-<p>Note to Tor relay operators:   In this litigous era, anyone
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-providing routing services may face copyright complaints under the
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-Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Thankfully, the DMCA safe harbors
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-provide immunity from many of them -- both to you and to your
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-upstream provider.  If your Internet host forwards a DMCA complaint
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-to you, here's a template you can use to write a response.  You can
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-tailor this to your own circumstances: if you think your host would
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-be disturbed to hear you're running a relay on the network, you may
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-want to take that part out.  Of course it's up to you to comply with
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-your ISP's terms of service.  If you're not comfortable including so
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-much legal explanation, feel free to invite the ISP to contact EFF
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-for a fuller discussion.</p>
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+<p>Written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (<a
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+href="https://www.eff.org">EFF</a>). Last updated May 31, 2011.</p>
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+<p>Note to Tor relay operators: In this litigious era, anyone providing
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+routing services may face copyright complaints for transmitted content.
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+Fortunately, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act safe harbors should
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+provide protections from many of them�both to you and to your upstream
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+provider. If your Internet host forwards a DMCA copyright complaint to
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+you, you can use this template to write a response, though you will need
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+to customize it to your situation. Please also ensure all the statements
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+are true for you.  (The Tor Project has an <a
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+href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorAbuseTemplates">abuse
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+collection of templates</a> to help you respond to other types of abuse
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+complaints, too.) Before sending any response to your ISP, you may want
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+to seek the advice of an attorney licensed to practice in your
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+jurisdiction.</p>
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 <p>This template letter is for informational purposes only and does not
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 constitute legal advice. Whether and how you should respond when you or
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-your ISP has received a DMCA notice will turn on the particular facts
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-of your situation. This template is intended as a starting point. Before
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-sending any response to your ISP, you may want to seek the advice of an
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-attorney licensed to practice in your jurisdiction.</p>
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-<p>Also, if you received this document from anywhere besides <a
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-href="https://torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html">https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html</a>,
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+your ISP has received a DMCA notice will turn on the particular facts of
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+your situation. This template is intended as a starting point, but you
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+should tailor it to your own circumstances. In addition, it's up to you
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+to comply with your ISP's terms of service. If you're not comfortable
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+including so much legal explanation, feel free to invite the ISP to
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+contact EFF for a fuller discussion. </p>
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+<p>If you do not believe the safe harbors apply to your particular
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+situation, don't use this template as a basis for your response.
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+Specific information about safe harbor qualification for "transitory
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+digital network communications" is provided on the Chilling Effects
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+website <a
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+href="https://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi#QID586">here</a>
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+and also in the template, below.</p>
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+<p>Also, if you received this document from anywhere other than the EFF
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+web site or <a
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+href="<page eff/tor-dmca-response>"
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+title="<page eff/tor-dmca-response>"><page eff/tor-dmca-response></a>,
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 it may be out of date. Follow the link to get the latest version.</p>
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-<p>Dear [ISP]:</p>
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+<blockquote><p>
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+Dear [ISP]:</p>
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 <p>Thank you for forwarding me the notice you received from [copyright
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-claimant] regarding [content].  I would like to assure you that,
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-contrary to the assertions in the notice, 1) I am not hosting or
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-making available the claimed infringing materials, and 2) you are
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-already protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's ("DMCA")
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-safe harbor from any liability arising from this complaint.   The
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-notice is incorrect, probably based upon misunderstandings about law
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-and about some of the software I run.
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-</p>
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-First, in terms of legal liability, this notice does not create any
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-risk for you as a service provider.  As you know, the DMCA creates
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-four "safe harbors" for service providers to protect them from
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-copyright liability for the acts of their users, when the ISPs
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-fulfill certain requirements. (17 U.S.C. � 512)   The DMCA's
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-requirements vary depending on the ISP's role.  You may be most
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-familiar with the "notice and takedown" provisions of DMCA 512(c),
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-but those apply only to content hosted on your servers, or to linking
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-and caching activity. The "takedown notice" provisions do not apply
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-when an ISP merely acts as a conduit.  Instead, the "conduit" safe
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-harbor of DMCA 512(a) has different and less burdensome requirements,
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-as the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held in RIAA v. Verizon (see
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-<a href="http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/opinion-20031219.pdf">http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/opinion-20031219.pdf</a>)
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+claimant] regarding [content]. I would like to assure you that I am not
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+hosting the claimed infringing materials, and furthermore, the Digital
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+Millennium Copyright Act's ("DMCA") safe harbors likely protect you from
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+liability arising from this complaint. The notice is likely based upon
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+misunderstandings about the law and about some of the software I
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+run.</p>
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+<p>As you know, the DMCA creates four "safe harbors" for service
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+providers to protect them from copyright liability for the acts of their
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+users, when the ISPs fulfill certain requirements. (17 U.S.C. � 512) The
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+DMCA's requirements vary depending on the ISP's role. You may be
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+familiar with the "notice and takedown" provisions of section 512(c) of
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+the DMCA; however, those do not apply when an ISP merely acts as a
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+conduit. Instead, the "conduit" safe harbor of section 512(a) of the
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+DMCA has different and less burdensome eligibility requirements, as the
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+D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held in RIAA v. Verizon (see <a
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+href="https://www.eff.org/legal/cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/opinion-20031219.pdf"
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+title="https://www.eff.org/legal/cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/opinion-20031219.pdf">https://www.eff.org/legal/cases/RIAA_v_Verizon/opinion-20031219.pdf</a>)
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 and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed in RIAA v. Charter
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-(see <a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/Charter/033802P.pdf">http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/Charter/033802P.pdf</a>).
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-Here, any content that came from or through my computers merely
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-passed through your network, so DMCA 512(a) applies.  Under DMCA
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-512(a), you are immune from money damages for copyright infringement
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-claims if you maintain "a policy that provides for termination in
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-appropriate circumstances of subscribers and account holders of the
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-service provider's system or network who are repeat infringers."  If
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-you have and implement such a policy, you are free from fear of
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-copyright damages, period.
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-As for what makes a reasonable policy, as the law says, it's one that
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-only terminates subscribers who are repeat infringers. A notice
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-claiming infringement is not the same as a determination of
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-infringement. The notification you received is not proof of any
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-copyright infringement, and it certainly is not proof of the "repeat
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-infringement" that is required under the law before you need to
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-terminate my account.  I have not infringed any copyrights and do not
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-intend to do so.  Therefore, you continue to be protected under the
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-DMCA 512(a) safe harbor, without taking any further action.
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-You might be curious, though, about what did trigger the notice.  The
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-software that likely triggered the faulty notice is a program I run
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-called Tor.  Tor is network software that helps users to enhance
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-their privacy, security, and safety online. It does not host or make
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-available any content.  Rather, it is part of a network of nodes on
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-the Internet that simply pass packets among themselves before sending
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-them to their destinations, just as any Internet host does.  The
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+(see <a href="https://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/Charter/033802P.pdf"
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+title="https://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/Charter/033802P.pdf">https://w2.eff.org/IP/P2P/Charter/033802P.pdf</a>).</p>
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+<p>Under DMCA 512(a), service providers like you are typically protected
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+from damages for copyright infringement claims if you also maintain "a
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+policy that provides for termination in appropriate circumstances of
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+subscribers and account holders of the service provider's system or
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+network who are repeat infringers." If you have and implement such a
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+policy, and you otherwise qualify for the safe harbor, you should be
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+free from fear of copyright damages.</p>
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+<p>As for what makes a reasonable policy, as the law says, it's one that
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+terminates subscribers who are repeat infringers. The notification you
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+received is certainly not proof of the "repeat infringement" that is
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+required under the law before you need to terminate my account. In fact,
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+it�s not even proof of any copyright infringement; a notice claiming
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+infringement is not the same as a determination of infringement. I have
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+not infringed any copyrights and do not intend to do so. Therefore, you
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+should continue to be protected under the DMCA 512(a) safe harbor
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+without taking any further action. </p>
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+<p>You may be curious about what prompted the faulty notice. It was
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+likely triggered by a program I run called Tor. Tor is network software
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+that helps users to enhance their privacy, security, and safety online.
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+It does not host any content. Rather, it is part of a network of nodes
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+on the Internet that simply pass packets among themselves before sending
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+them to their destinations, just as any Internet intermediary does. The
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 difference is that Tor tunnels the connections such that no hop can
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 learn both the source and destination of the packets, giving users
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-protection from nefarious snooping on network traffic.  Tor protects
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+protection from nefarious snooping on network traffic. The result is
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+that, unlike most other Internet traffic, the final IP address that the
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+recipient receives is not the IP address of the sender. Tor protects
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 users against hazards such as harassment, spam, and identity theft.
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-In fact, initial development of Tor, including deployment of a
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-public-use Tor network, was a project of the U.S. Naval Research
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-Laboratory, with funding from ONR and DARPA. (For more on Tor,
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-href="https://www.torproject.org/">https://www.torproject.org/</a>.)
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-As an organization committed to
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-protecting the privacy of its customers, I hope you'll agree that
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-Thank you for working with me on this matter.  As a loyal subscriber,
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+Initial development of Tor, including deployment of a public-use Tor
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+network, was a project of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, with
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+funding from ONR and DARPA. (For more on Tor, see <a
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+href="https://www.torproject.org/"
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+title="https://www.torproject.org/">https://www.torproject.org/</a>.) I
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+hope, as an organization committed to protecting the privacy of its
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+customers, you'll agree that this is a valuable technology. </p>
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+<p>Thank you for working with me on this matter. As a loyal subscriber,
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 I appreciate your notifying me of this issue and hope that the
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-complete protections of DMCA 512 put any concerns you may have at
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-rest. If not, please contact me with any further questions.
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-Very truly yours,<br>
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-Your customer, [User]
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+protections of DMCA 512 put any concerns you may have to rest. If not,
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+please contact me with any further questions. </p>
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+<p>Very truly yours,<br />
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+Your customer, [User]</p></blockquote>
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 providers, EFF is interested in hearing from you. Read more <a
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 href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2005-October/016301.html">here</a>
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 about being EFF's test case.</p>
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-<p><a href=https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/setting-up/>» Set up a Tor
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