Beyond Graduated Response

Abstract

Since the mid-2000s, many large right-holders have seen ‘graduated response’ as the solution to the plague of widespread infringement which accompanied broadband Internet access, cheap storage and ubiquitous computing. As discussed below, graduated responses can take a multiplicity of different forms, but they each require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to have some involvement in policing the online infringements of their users. This is what right-holder representatives such as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have consistently argued is right and proper: in their view, ISPs are the proper custodians of the infringement problem, and its solution is held ba..