1.   And software makers could require the chip ID as a way of preventing piracy.

2.   And to prevent piracy, Hollywood is insisting that any digital recording format be designed to prevent the copying of movies.

3.   As first conceived, the legislation was intended to prevent piracy and preserve copyrights.

4.   A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Thursday that a Web site operator cannot distribute a computer program used to crack codes that prevent the piracy of movies.

5.   Alliance spokeswoman Kim Willard said preventing piracy is a monumental task.

6.   But encryption rules designed to prevent piracy forbid transmission of digital content over the network, said Marc Padovani, a Dell product-marketing manager.

7.   China recently enacted safeguards to prevent piracy but some Hollywood studios are skeptical there will be immediate results.

8.   Disney chief Michael Eisner formally urged Congress to write a law requiring computer and Internet companies to include technology to prevent content piracy off the Web.

9.   Similarly, the technology could be used to prevent piracy of digital music, and could give recording companies the confidence to sell songs and albums over the Internet.

10.   So music executives had little incentive to spend time or money devising technical ways to prevent digital piracy.