If I go to a page with a video on it that uses flash, the rest of the page works just fine if I don&#x27;t have the flash plugin installed. This is identical behavior to not having the CDM. If the rest of the page <i>also</i> uses flash, that&#x27;s entirely separate. It is even possible that the rest of the page could be flash, while playing a video with either the native &lt;video&gt; tag or through a CDM.<p>Integration between the video and the rest of the page is going to break without {video tag support with the necessary codec,flash,EME support with the necessary CDM}. Again, there is no difference.<p>You&#x27;re trying to pretend that there is somehow a more usable page with EME+CDM over flash, when most of the time the video was the goal.<p>&gt; having spent the last decade founding and building a premium content streaming service<p>You&#x27;re fighting against the General Purpose Computer. Sorry, you don&#x27;t get to run code on my computer without my approval. You don&#x27;t get to turn my General Purpose Computer into an appliance. If you care <i>at all</i> about preserving any control over your own General Purpose Computers, stop. You&#x27;ve already spent a decade building the seeds of technology that lock down the web. Now John Deere has used the same ideas to take away property rights. You are adding difficulties to <i>legitimate</i> users while the pirates ignore your CDM and go straight to torrents&#x2F;etc. Was the delusion that you&#x27;re protecting anything worth these costs?