[Ninjalawyer]

The problem with cutting off a person's internet access is that you're also cutting them off from easy access to social services (municipal updates, tax information, etc.), easy access to banking transactions (on-line banking, paying taxes) and (maybe) their preferred method of talking to friends and family (social media).

This might be okay if: (i) the process for determining who is pirating and who isn't was more thorough (likely requiring it to also be more intrusive), could effectively prevent false-positives, and had an easily accessible appeal process; and (ii) it could be shown that there's a logical connection between cutting people off the internet and reducing piracy.

Unfortunately, HADOPI managed neither (i) nor (ii), so it's hard to see how cutting someone off the internet is justifiable, other than in an overly simplistic "well that's the law, so it's the law", fashion.