Suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "The French Senate has once again approved a reworked version of the country's polemic 'three strikes' bill designed to appease the Constitutional Council. Instead of a state-appointed agency cutting off those accused of being repeat offenders, judges will have the final say over punishment. The blessing comes exactly one month after the country's Constitutional Council ripped apart the erstwhile version of the Cration et world wide web law. ... Not content to let the idea die, commander Nicolas Sarkozy's law reworked the law in hopes of making it amenable to the Council — instead of HADOPI deciding on its own to cut off users on the third strike, it will now report offenders to the courts. A judge can then choose to ban the user from the Internet, fine him or her 300,000 (according to the AFP), or hand over a two-year prison sentence."

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