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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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Wrong. Britain is
discussing such a law. Nothing has been "enacted", and the government has specifically said that disconnection would be a "measure of last resort", and done only as the result of a court order.
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this is a sorry state of affairs in the world currently, i have to say. 
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If you repeatedly commit driving offences, you will, at some point, be banned from driving a car for a limited period. I personally see no difference between this and that fact that, if you persistently infringe copyright law by downloading illegal material, and ignore multiple warnings to stop doing so, then you will, after a due process of law, be cut off for a limited period. It's the "due process of law" that's the important part, and the proposed British law will have that. The same law will, by the way, liberalise many aspects of current UK law, and for the first time make it legal to rip your own CDs to a computer, lend them to your friends, make a copy for use in your car, and many other things which are currently illegal in the UK.