Yesterday we noted how the RIAA's having a hard time getting US ISPs to sign up voluntarily to play copyright cops -- booting heavy P2P users from their networks. In many countries, the entertainment industry's next course of action has been to lobby for laws forcing the ISPs to play along. While that's worked well in France, plans to force UK ISPs to play copyright nanny haven't been going quite so well (via Techdirt). The government has all but ruled out a "graduated response" approach, instead stating they'll use undefined "technical solutions" as a deterrent to heavy P2P users. That may not be a whole lot better, particularly if it involves ISPs who've cheaped out on infrastructure upgrades to placate investors advertising 8Mbps connections that really run at 896kbps.