UK Communications Bill details

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The on-topic relevance appears to be that the plan is not to directly force=
 service providers (including p2p) to provide backdoors, simply to force th=
e biggest ISPs to block them if they don't. So in practice most will cooper=
ate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19968068

Revealing quote:
'Christopher Graham told a committee of MPs and peers set up to scrutinise =
the legislation that it may end up only applying to the six largest compani=
es - which control about 94% of the market.=20

There was a danger that the most serious criminals, including terrorists, w=
ould simply use a smaller provider that permitted encrypted communications =
and take the view they were "home free".'

So 94% of the UK online population are going to lose access overnight to fa=
cebook, gmail, and World of Warcraft? (They will have to block SSL for site=
s they know can be used for talking to other users, and MMORPGs are all enc=
rypted to prevent cheating). Could be one of the most spectacular political=
 backfires of recent history, certainly to do with online stuff... Of cours=
e Facebook, Google, etc will cooperate to avoid being blocked...

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