Let me get this straight – having worked out that it is potentially a bad idea to go around suing their own customers, the MPAA are instead going around trying to get other people to disconnect their own customers instead?

What is this – “financial suicide by proxy”? There must be some deep psychological term…

I’d love to think this is the end of the beginning, but I am not yet convinced…

European Parliament Condemns Plans To Disconnect File-Sharers | TorrentFreak

Controversial plans to disconnect file-sharers from the internet were condemned in the European Parliament this morning when MEPs voted to avoid adopting measures “conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness”.

After failing in their ’sue em all’ approach in dealing with file-sharers, the music industry in particular has been lobbying for ISPs to disconnect their subscribers from the internet. The proposals by the French have been well documented and more recently, the attempts by the British Phonographic Industry to bully ISPs into disconnecting their customers. These proposals have been met with anger and disbelief across Europe but today, common-sense appears to be re-emerging.

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