Last week, an attempt to pass a law forcing ISPs to boot repeat copyright infringers was voted down by French politicians. As you'd expect, the folks behind the proposal are now pushing for another vote to be held on April 29, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy proclaiming the law is necessary to "protect creative diversity." As Techdirt notes, kicking people off the Internet doesn't seem to be a way to promote "musical diversity," nor is a particularly good music business model. What it will probably do is alienate potential customers, while creating an added expense for ISPs (including a master list of repeat offenders which may not even work), with those costs passed directly on to consumers.