British ISPs Mad About RIP

msuzio writes "Wired is reporting on British ISPs who are mad as hell about RIP. The report talks about the ISPs dealing with unreasonable requests (archive all traffic for seven years), stupid cops ("What is a Hotmail account?"), and the threat that ISPs will move offshore. There is also a great teaser at the end about Moot, a product to enable commonly available data encryption to UK users to combat RIP."

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Re:That's all very well

[Technician]

Think of the storage cost. If you stored everything you viewed online in a year, you wouldn't have enough room. This includes all pictures, streaming audio, e-mail including SPAM, FTP, wallpaper, themes, trial software, Software upgrades & updates, ICQ & AIM chat sessions, Movies, Web broadcasts, Napster MP3's ... You think a Windows temp swap file is big, make it 7 years long. Then it must be all indexed so the data could be mined to find things like other e-mail boxes or ISP a user uses, including web based. No wonder the ISP's are fleeing. Storing the data is one thing. Digging thru the city dump of data for a diamond is another.

The ISP's are fighing massive bloat that will overwhelm them. Remember not all users receive stuff on a 14.4k baud dial up modem. ISP's will either have to limit bandwidth (Charge per meg) or carry fewer users at a higher price to meet the requirement.