It's about time this happened. In the UK we have a law called the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which allows access to certain data held by ISPs

It's about time this happened. In the UK we have a law called the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) which allows access to certain data held by ISPs or can compel people in certain cases to not only hand over encryption material but prohibits them from acknowledging that they had been charged under such a law. As you can imagine, that last bit results in some very complicated situations. The laws governing paedophilia are quite different, with paedophiles having to sign a sex offenders register. In the case of a sex offender being caught, it's easier to just take the RIPA sentence instead. This is what appears to have happened. I hope the guy's password is long enough otherwise regardless of his crime he's in for a world of pain.