"ISP Dimata-matai, Internet Anda Diacak atas Permintaan Hollywood"
"ISP will be Spying on You and Messing with Your Internet at Hollywood´s Request"
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Parulian Manalu
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KURANGNYA keterbukaan pada sistem antipembajakan "serangan enam" karena dilakukan oleh sektor swasta, sehingga tidak dapat ditanggapi seperti undang-undang. Pelanggan internet menghadapi konsekuensi berdasarkan tuduhan.
"Ini sistem yang rumit," kata Corynne McSherry dari kelompok hak asasi digital Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"Mungkin akan ada orang tak bersalah yang terjerat sistem in."
Aktivis lain bahkan lebih kasar dalam melancarkan kritik. "Segera ISP anda dimata-matai, dan internet anda diacak-acak atas permintaan Hollywood," begitu kicauan di Twitter dari kelompok yang menamakan diri Fight for the Future, seperti dilansir StraitTimes.
Melalui sistem baru itu mereka dapat 'memperlambat akses internet bahkan menutupnya hanya dengan alasan pelanggaran hak cipta.'
Namun Yayasan Inovasi dan Teknologi Informasi, suatu kelompok pemikir dari Washington menyebut program tersebut sebagai contoh untuk perlindungan hak cipta tanpa terlalu menghambat pemakai internet dan inovasi.
Lima provider internet yang berpartisipasi dalam program tersebut adalah Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Cablevision dan Verizon-- yang mencakup 85 persen pelanggan penduduk AS.
Perusahaan-perusahaan itu pada pekan ini mulai menyiarkan perincian langkah pengamanan tersebut.
Comcast mengumumkan di lamannya, "Suatu sistem peringatan bertahap akan dimulai kemudian berkembang menjadi peringatan mitigasi yang akan meminta pelanggan untuk menghubungi perusahaan, tetapi program tersebut tidak akan ditutup."
Verizon mengatakan akan menerapkan "pengurangan kecepatan internet sementara selama dua-tiga hari bagi pelanggan yang menerima sedikitnya lima peringatan".
Cablevision mengatakan "akses internet anda untuk sementara mungkin akan ditangguhkan."
AT & T menyatakan, pelanggan akan diminta melakukan langkah tambahan untuk membuka materi online yang harus disertai penghargaan hak cipta.
Vice President AT&T Ben Olson mengatakan, sebagian pelanggan akan memberikan tanggapan positif ketika menerima peringatan pertama, sehingga tidak diperlukan peringatan berikutnya.
ANOTHER problem is a "lack of transparency" in the system, which is private and cannot be challenged in the same way as a law.
"We have an elaborate private enforcement system for copyright, because they weren't happy with what they could get from Congress," said Corynne McSherry at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group.
Internet subscribers "face consequences based on nothing more than an accusation," McSherry said.
Other activists were even more blunt in their criticism.
"Soon your ISP will be spying on you and messing with your internet at Hollywood's request," said a tweet from the online activist group Fight for the Future.
The group said that under new system, "they can slow down or shut off your internet connection without any due process, claiming copyright infringement."
But the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington think tank, called the program "a model for addressing digital property rights without unduly inhibiting Internet use and innovation."
Participating in the program are the five largest broadband Internet providers -- Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Cablevision and Verizon -- covering some 85 percent of US residential customers.
The firms this week began releasing details of their enforcement.
Comcast said on its website its "progressive alerts will start out as informational and then evolve into 'mitigation alerts'" which require customers to call the company, but that the program will not involve "termination."
Verizon said it will implement "temporary Internet speed reductions of two or three days for customers who receive at least five alerts."
Cablevision said it "may temporarily suspend your Internet access for a set period of time" for repeat violators.
AT&T said customers would "be required to take an extra step to review materials on an online portal that will educate them on the distribution of copyrighted content online" but also stressed its privacy protections.
AT&T vice president Ben Olson added that even though its measures are voluntary, "many customers will respond positively when first notified and will not need additional reminders."
