RIPA and file-sharing??

[Roland Perry]

In article <47AB0EFD.80002@callnetuk.com>, PeteM <otcbn@callnetuk.com> 
writes
>If the ISP industry hadn't cooperated quite so enthusiastically with 
>the perpetrators of RIPA, we might have ended up with something not 
>quite so close to a surveillance state.

You have to remember that RIPA is mainly written about (and operated by) 
telephone companies. If ISPs had gone off in a sulk then we probably 
wouldn't have been missed much, in those days.
-- 
Roland Perry