I'm not talking about Apple here.

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.