'Andreeson' rhymes with 'shadenfraude.' http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3031836.htm Andreessen: Copy protection efforts are doomed By Dawn C. Chmielewski Mercury News LAS VEGAS - Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen told the nation's broadcasters that efforts to copy protect music, movies or television shows are destined to fail. As film studios and recording studios urge Congress to extend copy protection to every home entertainment device, Andreessen said the entertainment industry need look no further than the software industry's own expensive, failed attempts at encryption to realize it is ineffective at stopping piracy. ``If a computer can see it, display it and play it -- it can copy it,'' said Andreessen, in a keynote address to the National Association of Broadcasters convention. Extract ends,and I can laugh at it.pr.Dan G's M$ trial eye view... http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/