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Oregon Daily Emerald Friday, November 18, 2005 NEWS STAFF (541)346-5511 PARKER HOWELL EDITOR IN CHIEF SHADRA BEES LEY MANAGING EDITOR MEGHANN M. CUNIFF JARED PABEN NEWS EDITORS EVASYLWESTER SENIOR NEWS REPORTER KELLY BROWN KATY GAGNON CHRISTOPHER HAGAN BRrrrNt mcclenahan NICHOLAS WILBUR NEWS REPORTERS JOE BAILEY EMILY SMITH PART-TIME NEWS REPORTERS SHAWN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR scorn. 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Unlawful removal or use of papers is prosecutable by law. ■ In my opinion Paying the Pricfe For some time now, there has been a lot of talk about piracy: downloading music for free, burning CDs, sharing music files and all other creative meth ods of theft. Those within the music and movie industries have been work ing to protect their products, introduc ing legislation that makes it easier to go after “online thieves,” and winning thousands of lawsuits against people who illegally download music and movies. For some people, the threat of legal action is not enough, so compa nies have looked to develop programs that keep consumers from pirating the music that they are attempting to sell. So far, the majority of these attempts to protect CDs have been rather benign, though they can be annoying. One of the more popular forms of protection is “end-user license agreements.” This contract makes users agree to a long list of restrictions before they can use the product they have purchased. Some li cense agreements, like that listed on Sony BMG’s compact disks, can be rather restrictive: The music cannot be loaded onto a work computer; music loaded onto home PCs cannot be taken out of the country; and people who no longer possess the original CD are re quired to delete music they have loaded onto their computers. Some of these restrictions are unfair and, for lack of a better word, silly. I have had a CD break and the only rea son I can continue listening to the mu sic I paid for is because I had already loaded it onto my computer. Although I think some of these terms are a little re strictive, I see why they are necessary. A lot of people are out there stealing and distributing music. I understand burning the occasional CD from a friend or downloading the occasional song. But a lot of people take it too far and, any way you spin it, it is theft. There are a few popular defenses for piracy: The artists make enough JESSICA DERLETH FREEDOM RINGS WHERE OPINIONS CLASH money as it is, and most CDs only have a few good songs. Well, lucky enough, all of this music downloading has led to legitimate Web sites where people can buy single songs. These sites are a con venient way to get the music you want. Aside from the quality of the CD as a whole, I have heard a lot of scorn when it comes to music artists and how much money they make. This I can under stand. If Hillary Duff, for instance, is complaining about not getting all the money that she is due, I find it hard to muster any sympathy. Those who have seen those programs about the ridicu lously expensive things celebrities buy should at least be able to see where I am coming from. My lack of concern for the millionaire artists is balanced out by my appreciation for all of the people who work on recording, pro ducing, creating and selling the CDs, who certainly deserve to be paid. Music is a product just like anything else you find in a store. And just like anything else, if you take it without paying, you are stealing. With that in mind, I can understand why compa nies work so hard to protect music; however, Sony took things too far. On Oct. 31, blogger Mark Russi novich discovered a hidden program installed on his PC by a Sony music disk. When the CDs are put into the computer, they automatically install a program that restricts how many times the discs’ tracks can be copied, which is inconvenient when it comes to using portable music players. The alarming part about this program is that it is de signed to bury itself deep within the Windows operating system. Manual attempts to remove the software can disable the PC’s CD drive. Even worse, the program has given virus writers an easy tool for hiding their “malicious software.” Yep, Sony has made it easier for virus writers to steal personal infor mation, launch attacks on other computers, and send spam. When people purchase CDs, they shouldn’t have to worry that the com pany that made it will mess up their computers. Sony is working to prevent piracy, yet all it is doing is punishing people who purchase its CDs. Besides overreaching, Sony’s action may be vi olating state and federal spyware laws (class actions have been filed). When Sony realized the huge mis take it had made, it started trying to fix the mess from the 4.7 million shipped CDs that had the program and the 2.1 million sold. To help those that had the program installed on their computers, Sony developed an uninstaller that has created more problems. According to The Associated Press, “To get the unin stall program, users were asked to re quest it by filling out online forms. Once submitted, the forms themselves download and install a program de signed to ready the PC for the fix. Es sentially, it makes the PC open to downloading and installing code from the Internet.” It is important to protect intellectual property, but companies cannot put their consumers’ property at risk. It is not OK for Sony to jeopardize the com puters of their consumers. If there is any hope to end piracy, people need to stop stealing music and the industry needs to stick to responsible, safe methods for protecting their products. jderleth@ daily emerald. com ■ Guest commentary Guest columnist represents event, speaker inaccurately In response to the guest commen tary written Nov. 10 (ODE, “Narrow minds inhibit peace”) we, the Jewish Student Union, would like to respond to three inaccurate and offensive state ments that appeared in the opinion piece written by Alex Deley. First, Deley stated that the Nov. 1 speaker, Mitchell Bard, “is affiliated with the Jewish organization known as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.” This is false. The Ameri can Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is in fact an American-based, non-partisan, non-religious lobbying group, which advocates improved re lations between the United States and Israel. It is nothing less than offensive to label AIPAC as a Jewish organiza tion. Furthermore, Deley is grossly mistaken in suggesting that Dr. Bard is affiliated with AIPAC. Dr. Bard does not represent the American Israel Public Affair Committee, and is in fact a prolific author of more than 15 books on the Israel/Palestine conflict. It is also very arrogant for Deley to suggest that Dr. Bard demonstrated a “very shallow knowledge of Arab his tory and psychology.” While we re spect Alex Deley’s “great interest” in the Middle East, in addition to his “great lengths to read both sides of the argument,” we do not think that it is respectful to belittle Dr. Bard’s — or any other accomplished scholar’s — extensive knowledge and experience of the subject. Second, Deley incorrectly referred to the Islamic Terrorist organization, Hezbollah, as a “political organiza tion,” claiming that Hezbollah plays a “much greater role in the Middle East” by sponsoring humanitarian projects such as the building of schools. Deley , fails to mention that Hezbollah’s mis sion in building schools is to teach chil dren the ideologies of anti-Semitism, the destruction of Israel, and the real ization of an Islamic global presence. According to the United States, the Eu ropean Union, the United Nations and several other world powers, Hezbollah is strictly classified as a “terrorist organ ization.” The Anti-Defamation League also defines Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization” that seeks to destroy Is rael and the West “as steps in a Pan-Is lamic struggle.” The ADL goes on to say that Hezbollah has grown into a “military network that engages in terrorist-related activity all over the world, perpetrates and plots against American’s Westerners and Jews both inside and outside Lebanon, and cooperates with other international terrorist organizations. ” Third, the goal of inviting speakers to campus is not to present a point of view which pleases all sides, but rather to present different points of view on mul ti-layered conflict. It is unrealistic for Deley to expect an “evenhanded” ap proach to such as issue. In conclusion, we would like to clari fy that the lecture by Dr. Bard was the first in a series of several lectures we will be putting on throughout the school year, which aim to represent dif fering views on Israeli politics and cul ture. On Jan. 22, the Jewish Student Union, in conjunction with Oregon Hil lel, will be bringing the late Prime Min ister Yitzhak Rabin’s son, Yuval Rabin, to campus to honor the 10th anniver sary of his father’s assassination by a Jewish terrorist. Jonathan Rosenberg is director of the Jewish Student Union and a political science major. Daniel Rosoue is a political science major. ■ Out loud "The chief justice says that the court in no way desires to legislate. This is fucking legislation.” — David Goward, Recognition Review Com mittee chairman, on the Constitution Court’s decision last week to reject the RRC’s bylaws. “I think what we are most deeply saddened by is the tremendous loss of potential for a peaceful person who had (such a) good heart.” — Pat Lombardi, director of undergraduate advising and research assistant professor, on former University student Raymond Dwayne Gwerder, 30, who was shot and killed by a Port land police sniper on Nov. 4. “I hope that someone who shares my values, my commitment to this community and the de termination to make a difference will step for ward to run for the position.” — David Kelly, Ward 3 city councilor, on the qualities he would like to see in his replace ment. He announced his decision not to seek re-election this week. “So often in the United States, we have the Middle East reduced to a couple of conflicts and a couple of peoples in a couple of countries. We’re obligated to engage in basic education about the Middle East.” — Shaul Cohen, associate professor of geog raphy, challenging Americans to learn more about the Middle East during his speech kick ing off the International Resource Center’s week-long “Opening Windows on Middle East Cultures” event. “We feel that it portrays sexism in that all women are highly sexualized and objectified. We feel that their presence should not be here on campus.” —- Heather North, sophomore women’s and gender studies major, on “Mojo Master,” a video game promoting AXE men’s fragrances that AXE representatives displayed outside the EMU Tbesday. Sign-carrying protesters encir cled the AXE tent and shouted slogans. “We knew there would be things that some might find controversial.” —Amy Johnson, Scheduling and Event Ser vices coordinator, on AXE’s “Mojo Master” pro motional stop. “He was definitely on his way to doing things. My life is never going to be the same without him. It’s just not.” — Shane Reese, friend, on the death of sen ior Paul Michael Grillo, 22, who died Nov. 7 from a stab wound to his chest that police say was inflicted by his brother, sophomore John Andrew Grillo, 19. A memorial for Paul Grillo will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church in Hillsboro. “We put so many cups in the garbage it’s not even funny.” — Rosie Sweetman, ASUO environmental coordinator, on a visual display she created by collecting paper coffee cups from campus trash cans to celebrate America Recycles Day TUesday. “This is just another nail in the coffin for low income students.” — Bill Dwyer, Lane County commissioner, on the potential sale of Westmoreland Apart ments. CORRECTION The graphs accompanying Thursday’s article "Compar ing Compensation” represented total compensation, not just salaries. The salaries listed for Lorraine Davis, Dan Williams and John Moseley were from 2004-05, not 2003-04. The headline for Thursday's story “Journalism school adds diversity plan" should have specified that the school actually revised its 1993 plan. The Emerald regrets the errors.
