While so-called "three strikes" laws have been adopted in several countries in order to repeatedly accused of copyright infringement on the Internet kick Cnet is reporting that some U.S. ISPs

Sources say a final agreement has not been hammered out, but the preliminary rules are looking grim. The plan is being called a "graduated response", and ISPs would be given some leeway in how they administered it. It would start with written warnings. If the behavior continues, a user may have their bandwidth throttled, their service suspended, or their access limited to just the top 200 websites online. Presumably, the jack-booted thugs would be sent to a subscribers house in the dead of night at some point, but we cannot confirm.