You can have a service beyond the reach of UK law enforcement. Somehow piracy on the clearnet never really stopped with it being illegal in most countries.
Can I ask you how you think that would play out?
>Somehow piracy on the clearnet never really stopped with it being illegal in most countries.
I'm sure you can spot the difference between a small group of people running a piracy site and a multinational company selling physical devices in physical stores.
This is what you said:
> Any sufficiently popular alternative would be subject to the same issue: you can't backdoor encryption without making it insecure.
I'm just saying this is not true because you can have a company without any legal presence, thus susceptibility to law enforcement, in the UK. The legal issue will be shifted onto the user, but it's hard to go after millions of users compared to one big company.
The parallel with piracy is that they also tend to be operated from beyond the jurisdiction of countries enforcing the copyright.
This is true, although you'd need to sideload to avoid things like "UK government bans this app from the UK app store".
By allowing users to install arbitrary software on their computers which is not directly controlled by them?
That certainly would be shocking and unheard of.