France's Constitutional Council recently gutted the country's new three strikes law, which would have forced ISPs to kick heavy P2P users from the Internet. According to the Council, preventing users from accessing the Internet was an excessive punishment, given broadband services are quickly becoming a utility for many. The French government has now adopted a revamped version of the bill. The new bill shifts the responsibility for deciding whether users should be kicked off of the Internet from a new state agency to the courts:Techdirt meanwhile notes that this new "fast track system" is comprised of giving the Judge in question five minutes to make a determination on the impacted person's guilt or innocence. As Techdirt's Masnick notes, it's unlikely that bill-supporter and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who recently was busted for violating copyright, would have wanted his own particular case given just five minutes of consideration.