[In a close vote, the European Parliament rejected attempts to criminalize the sharing of files by private individuals and to ban copyright abusers from the Internet.
The report isn’t legally binding, but it could help thwart efforts by France, which has already adopted such measures, to push the issue at a European political level.](http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/10/Europe-rejects-plan-to-criminalize-file-sharing_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/10/Europe-rejects-plan-to-criminalize-file-sharing_1.html)
And IFPI sounds a bit pissed.