In a vote of 296 to 233, the French National Assembly on Tuesday approved a plan by President Nicolas Sarkozy to boot repeat copyright infringers from broadband networks, with full passage in the French upper house expected tomorrow. As the New York Times explores, the new law would create a government agency directly tasked with enforcing entertainment industry copyright, sending letters to broadband subscribers, terminating the connections of P2P users who ignored those letters, and presumably tracking repeat offenders across broadband providers. The Times touches on how leading French TV broadcaster TF1 fired an executive (ironically in charge of Web innovation) for writing his representative in opposition to the law.