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Let me play the devil's advocate here: what's wrong with true opt-in DRM, particularly for streaming? Most users think of video on a streaming site as being controlled by that site. If they want their own copy (and they're not trying to cop the stream) they go to a different kind of site or are clicking the download link if there's one. From the standpoint of user expectations, it's a completely different situation from downloading MP3 files to your hard drive.

In this case, DRM is completely consensual.



And no one is complaining. Trun was pointing out that it is unlikely that Netflix is going to switch to HTML5 video at the moment because there is no DRM available for it. The content providers won't go for it, the customers won't care.


It isn't so much the DRM as their choice of a DRM solution that only runs on Windows and Mac desktop systems. (Strictly speaking WinMo 7 as well.)

There's no reason to lock out my Droid like that, or my Linux desktop for that matter.




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