What legal issues should I be aware of when renting a server in Russia or abroad?

Question

Law in IT

In which countries, what is prohibited to contain and what actions are prohibited to perform?
Use torrents, for example, use some encryption methods (restriction on the key length), scan ports of an arbitrary range, in order to search for ftp services, or something else.
What is the responsibility for violations?

Answer 1

Read the ToS of hosters - everything is usually written there taking into account local features in the legislation.
Torrents cannot be used (except for seedboxes) for technical reasons - they heavily load the equipment in the DC. This is true for any host.
Responsibility is usually simple - for abusing (if the cause is not eliminated within a reasonable time) shutting down the server, if you are sued and a case is opened, your data will be transferred to this court (usually world-wide). And what will happen in court - that's how lucky. Hosters usually do not go against the courts of other countries in the presence of official papers (even if it is legal in their country) - this can hit their business.
There are bulletproof hostings - you can usually host any strawberry on them. Exactly until then, again, until you are sued;)
There are underground hostings - they will not give you away (well, if they don’t come to them with a gun, but there the owners-admins themselves are anonymous enough). One such came to my mind - all their data indicated that they were in Antarctica. But it is almost impossible to stumble upon such hosters on the net. And the prices there are biting (from kilodollars for a server with P4). Besides, there are fewer and fewer of them.
Digitalocean, for example, allows you to host erotica ("DigitalOcean permits adult websites that abide by state and federal law and regulation.") as long as it's not child porn or otherwise prohibited by law in ... (I don't know where exactly).
And hetzner forbids hosting any erotica. It would seem that there is a difference in countries, but there are hosters in Holland that prohibit hosting such things =)