CNet reports that Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman has strongly endorsed a wide variety of tools used to protect content and to discourage piracy.
Through more widespread adoption of copy-protection features and filtering tools like watermarking, "we will usher in an unprecedented period of creative output across the globe," Philippe Dauman told a few hundred attendees at the first day of an antipiracy summit hosted here by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a pro-business lobbying group.
Dauman lamented that "all manner of intellectual property" can now be reproduced more easily than ever "at the click of the mouse." Interestingly, his comments come as a handful of major media vendors--most recently Amazon.com, in its effort to compete with Apple's iTunes--have taken steps away from use of digital-rights management (DRM) features, which have been known to breed disgruntled consumers.
