Corynne McSherry and I previously explained the anti-consumer aspects of the graduated response deal.

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Well it's not the main prop, it's an extra facility, it's all part of our graduated response, we had them last year, we deployed them on the ground but didn't actually use them.

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As I understand the new agreement and subsequent comments, which are about as cryptic as a copy-protected DVD, ISP's have agreed to implement a standardized "graduated response plan" through which offending users are warned, restricted and eventually cut off from the Internet for successive violations.

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He said his party had produced a "graduated and proportionate response" to the IRA's refusal to re-engage with the decommissioning body.

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