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Google Fiber changed its terms of service in October. The terms now only forbid running a server "for commercial purposes". [0]

I have Google Fiber, and I'm fine with the new terms. I do wonder, though, what would happen if I set up a Tor exit node or something. ...

0. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/google...

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Would it be allowed to connect a none profit data center then ?

It makes their monopoly only stronger. So to say, for any innovator who wants to use his OWN Internet connection to host whatever s/he deems good, it is prohibited by Google. Ok, that's unfair!

You sure don't OWN it. You can lease IP addresses from the registry, but you still don't own them, you can get an Internet connection from a company, but you don't own it, you are leasing the line and bandwidth from the provider.

Why is it illegal, that's the question! It does not harm anyone!

Ok, but one doesn't need to fully own the cable, to run a startup's server on it. They can forbid SMTP servers, ok, but HTTP etc. should be allowed.

You mean I need my own hacker satellite to own it? Even then, how would you connect your satellite to the network?

The pain with running an exit node is the shit storm you can bring down on yourself if someone grabs child porn via your node.You can end up with all of your equipment siezed for quite some time until they figure out it was from tor.

I believe there was a "How To Run a Tor Exit Node" article posted to HN a while back which basically said "never run it from your house" (always run it from a dedicated hosting provider), for that reason.

Be warned though. At least in Germany they come to your home long after they seized the server. They might even come to your home after they know the seized server was a Tor node.

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