Andreessen Speaks Up

[tom poe]

Hi:  Considering his background prior to Netscape and LoudCloud, this is a 
significant statement, don't you think?
thanks,
Tom


Time To Face The Music
ANDREESSEN: COPY PROTECTION EFFORTS ARE DOOMED
San Jose Mercury News / SiliconValley.com

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.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3031836.htm

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