European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net. The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament.
But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the report which said nets bans conflicted with "civil liberties and human rights".
____________
*Source: BBC News (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7342135.stm)*
More...