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The Department Of Romance Languages Presents
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Painting Hatred and Ceremonies of Possession
in Protestant Anti-Spanish Pamphleteering
a lecture by
Jose Rabasa
Friday, February 26, 3:00 pm, 338 Gilbert
Professor Rabasa's talk will focus on narratives and artistic representations as
modes of colonizing territories, on how the beautiful constitutes a specific
modality of claiming possession and sovereignty. He will Reflect on the
connection between the ideological struggles that surrounded the wars of
religion in France and the Low Countries, and Theodore de bry's illustrations
to the translation of Las Casas's "Brevissima relacion de la destruction de
tndias (1958) Rabasa will show how this translation as well as the watercolors
lead the reader to identify the atrocities committed against Amerindians with
those perpetrated against Protestants.
Jose Rabasa (University of California, Berkeley is a specialist in Latin American
Colonial literature. His publications include: Inventing America: Spanish
Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (University of Oklahoma Press,
1993), and Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier (Forthcoming in Duke
University Press).
Cosponsored by the Latin American Studies Committee
Oregon Daily Emerald Wednesday, February 24,1999
Confessions of a CD ‘burner’
A person who copies
music CDs claims store
prices are inflated
By David Ryan
Oregon Daily Emerald
The Emerald interviewed a stu
dent who claims to copy CD al
bums, using a store-bought CD
burner to do the copying. While
copying CD albums is not software
piracy, it is copyright infringe
ment and it does require the use of
a computer to arrange music
tracks on a blank CD. The person
agreed to be interviewed on con
dition that the Emerald would not
identify the person.
What do you do?
“I don’t pirate software. You can
make [software programs) into
CDs, but it requires a lot of work.
In the end it’s not worth it. I
wouldn’t even do it for myself.
“If someone has a CD, or their
roommate wants to copy it, then I’ll
[copy] it for them. I don’t go on the
Internet and get albums which are
available. That’s too much work for
me. The price I want to charge in
terms of the work required to get it,
I’ll say ‘just go buy the CD. ’”
You don’t make a profit from it?
“Um, no, I’m charging more
than it costs for me to buy the
blank CDs, but that’s only until I
cover the $400 cost to buy the CD
burner. So it’s not really ever go
ing to be a profitable operation. ”
When you first bought the CD burner,
did you find you had a lot of people
who wanted you to copy CDs?
“When I first got the burner, I
was swamped with people who
wanted copies of things, but now I
think a lot of people kind of got the
CDs they wanted. Now, every cou
ple weeks there will be a new CD
that comes out that everybody
wants. I’ll bum that. (Demand for
copies of CDs] comes in spurts.”
How many people wanted you to copy
CDs in the last month?
“Maybe 20,25.”
Do you know it's copyright infringe
ment?
“Technically, yes, but the other
thing is that CDs are way over
priced. It’s kind of a personal bat
tle against the CD companies. ”
Are you afraid of getting caught?
“Not really. A lot of people are
concerned about it, but I don’t see
the difference between [burning
CDs] and putting a blank tape in
your recorder up to an album and
recording it. And everybody does
that and that doesn’t seem to be
anything people are talking about.
I think that if I got into software
pirating I’d be afraid there, be
cause then you’re really doing
something. Also, I’m not actively
trying to get clients.”
The person went on to say there
was a new product in stores made
by a stereo manufacturer that will
copy music CDs. The person said
he didn’t find anything wrong
with what he was doing when
there was a commercial advertis
ing that kind of product.
Some of these answers have
been edited for length and clarity.
Piracy
Continued from Page 1
Because it can be easy, students
might not know they are pirating
software.
Copying a friend’s computer
game might be OK, according to
the alliance, but only if it’s some
thing called “shareware” or "free
ware,” in which the maker of the
program gives permission for the
program to be copied without the
maker’s approval.
“I don’t think it’s so much a
technical issue as it is an educa
tional issue,” said Joe St Sauver
from the University Computing
Center. “I think awareness [of soft
ware copyright laws] is a big part
of it. It’s like copying books: it’s
probably something [students] are
not supposed to do, but they don’t
know about the copyright laws.”
St Sauver said pirated software
can bring viruses onto a student’s
hard drive. One program type,
called a “Trojan horse” causes the
computer to appear to be doing
one thing while actually doing an
other, such as a screen saver that
deletes programs off a hard drive.
Pirated programs also offer no
technical support service.
Not to mention how pirating
software might grab the attention
of federal agents.
A University of Oregon student
caught the FBI’s attention. Federal
agents served a search warrant on
Feb. 3 to a residence within the
University-owned Agate Apart
ments and confiscated computing
equipment. Assistant U.S. Attor
ney Sean Hoar, who is handling
the case along with the FBI, said
the student at the address was sus
pected of pirating software.
Acting on information that pi
rating had occurred at the Com
puting Center, federal agents also
investigated a computer port
there. The port showed signs of be
ing used for software piracy, Hoar
said.
“Obviously it’s electronic and dif
ferent than a normal computer [rou
tinely used by a specific person], but
we know who was using it at a cer
tain time,” Hoar said. “There’s no
question about” who was using the
port to pirate software.
Barret and Hoar would not com
ment further on the incident be
cause the case is still under inves
tigation.
The FBI is not the only one after
software pirates, and students are
not the only ones at the University
who have found themselves in
trouble with agencies fighting soft
ware piracy.
The Software Publishing Asso
ciation, a private organization that
searches for software pirates, files
lawsuits against violators in addi
tion to holding educational lec
tures across the country.
The University of Oregon is no
stranger to the SPA, according to a
Feb. 7,1993, article in the webzine
“The Computer Underground Di
gest.”
In settling the first software pira
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lic university, the University paid
$130,000 to the SPA in 1991. The
University admitted no wrongdo
ing.
After die lawsuit, the University
has required its employees to sign a
legal agreement not to steal or use
unauthorized software. Since then,
no software piracy lawsuits have
been filed against the University.
Individual schools at the Uni
versity also use other measures to
prevent piracy.
“Primarily we use lab monitors
and active discouragement,” said
Rick Gross, the school of journal
ism’s instructional technology co
ordinator. “We try to make sure stu
dents know what piracy means."
If caught, student pirates can be
convicted of violation of the stu
dent conduct code.
“You’re basically risking your
college career,” Gross said.
Christopher Wolf, an intellectual
property attorney with the Wash
ington, D.C., law firm Proskauer
Rose, said the nature of software
piracy is quickly changing.
“I think it’s going to be easier to
copy, and I think it will be easier to
identify who’s copying,” he said.
“There will be identifying infor
mation written onto the software
so copies on [Web sites where soft
ware can be downloaded] can be
identified.”
Emerald online editor Jake Ortman
contributed to this article.
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