After years of questionable effectiveness, France’s notorious three-strikes anti-piracy law—known by its French acronym, Hadopi—has had its most controversial provision removed.

On Tuesday, the French Ministry of Culture announced (Google Translate) that it would be canceling the most severe penalty in the entire scheme: disconnecting someone from the Internet. How many times was this penalty actually enforced over the years that Hadopi has been on the books? Exactly once.

In September 2012, a man in Eastern France was convicted of a third strike after downloading unauthorized copies of two Rihanna songs, even though his soon-to-be-ex-wife was the one who admitted in court that she had done it. Frustrated with the entire Hadopi system, the unnamed man from Eastern France voluntarily took his entire household offline. It took until last month for a single user to be fined €600 ($771) and kicked offline for 15 days (Google Translate)—the first time disconnection had been ordered after the many millions of warnings that Hadopi has sent French Internet users. Only a small handful of French users have even made it to strike three.

Since the new administration of President François Hollande, who was elected last year, Hadopi has been on the ropes. Hollande campaigned in part on shutting Hadopi down (mostly), and later his culture minister told a French magazine that Hadopi had “not fulfilled its mission.” The agency's budget was eventually cut.

In its statement (Google Translate) about the change, the Ministry of Culture says that cutting someone off from the Internet is “totally unadapted to our world” and that the new approach illustrates a “change in orientation” for the government’s enforcement measures. Hadopi will now focus more on pirate and unauthorized streaming sites—and less on individual users.