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Do want ISPs to charge by the minute again? Because that's how we get there.

If ISPs tried than the public would pressure the government to drop the law.

I calculate with 50% reduction from compression (After the required back-ups to comply with the law the number will be much worse for the ISP). That somone on VM 500Mbits using less than 10% of their connection for this could increase their log size by 200GB per day or 73TB over the 12 months.

Then you get throttled by your ISP

Then people move to Germany for the good internet.

As a side effect, then those people will be living in a country that already has laws against this kind of thing...

You know, because of the... unpleasantness.

But no worries, you go ahead with what you're doing, UK. Good job. Maybe IBM can offer some technical experience in this area.

I'm not sure if this is referring to the privacy laws or the internet itself, but the internet connectivity in Germany is dreadful in my experience. Capacity is at its limits, to the point that some flats don't have access to the internet.

> the public would pressure the government to drop the law

And the government would just ignore them because of lobbying

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