Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect said the move to Web services could <A HREF="http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3417261">ease the Internet's security woes</A> and that digital rights management can balance out piracy. During a chat in the San Francisco Bay Area Friday for a series of meet-and-greets at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Bill Gates also said the fight to stop file-swapping online is a lost cause.