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 the biggest ISPs to block them if they don't. So in practice most will cooperate.
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 companies - which control about 94% of the market. There was a danger that the most serious criminals, including terrorists, would 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 facebook, gmail, and World of Warcraft? (They will have to block SSL for sites they know can be used for talking to other users, and MMORPGs are all encrypted to prevent cheating). Could be one of the most spectacular political backfires of recent history, certainly to do with online stuff... Of course Facebook, Google, etc will cooperate to avoid being blocked...
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