In Canada, the “three strikes and your out” policy for dealing with filesharing has finally started losing ground. Lobby groups and the music industry have been pushing for the ruling to be enforced to ban users from the Internet for repeatedly using filesharing services to download copyrighted music.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is behind the filesharing strikeout policy, while Britain, Australia and Japan have also been mulling the idea.

In Sweden, ministers have already debunked the idea. The move has been cited as a violation of civil liberties and human rights. After all, such a policy means that ISPs have to excessively monitor their clients before turning over information to the government.

It’s bad news whichever way you look at it, especially given the vast number of people who use filesharing programs like Ares.

Cutting off someone’s Internet connection is not the way to go about dealing with filesharing.

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