[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by UnReaL

Moves by the French government to impose such a 'three-strikes' law have been ruled unconstitutional and the recent Digital Britain report stopped short of mentioning Internet disconnections.

No but what it did was everything but! From the report:

Ofcom will also be given the power to specify, by Statutory Instrument, other conditions to be imposed on ISPs aimed at preventing, deterring or reducing online copyright infringement, such as:

• Blocking (Site, IP, URL);
• Protocol blocking;
• Port blocking;
• Bandwidth capping (capping the speed of a subscriber’s Internet connection and/or capping the volume of data traffic which a subscriber can access);
• Bandwidth shaping (limiting the speed of a subscriber’s access to selected protocols/services and/or capping the volume of data to selected protocols/services); and
• Content identification and filtering.

This power would be triggered if the notification process has not been successful after a year in reducing infringement by 70% of the number of people notified