I grant you that the point is largely video, and I probably made a poor choice to reference other things happening on the page, but even within purely the video playback, a CDM is hands down far less proprietary code than a plugin like Flash which not only is poorly optimized for any given browser, but also introduces a whole host of other issues which a CDM doesn&#x27;t get anywhere near (eg. flash cookies).<p>The rest of your comment is just straight up offensive zealotry.  Spare me the ideological rants and go re-read my opening comment carefully.  I spent the first 7 years fighting against DRM in direct conversation with rights holders.  I have signed deals with hundreds of small distributors to stream content without DRM.  I have done more for the cause of avoiding DRM in practice than a million EFF press releases which do nothing but preach to the choir.  Furthermore, I am not building DRM, I am only implementing existing industry-standard DRM as required by studios.  I can choose not to do so, in which case I won&#x27;t get the content I need to build a viable business, and then I will go out of business, but the status quo will not have changed.<p>This nonsense about me forcing you to run code on your computer without your approval is asinine.  I am not forcing you to run <i>anything</i>, run what you want, but I&#x27;m not allowed to stream certain content to you without it, that is beyond my control.  If you only want unencumbered content, then don&#x27;t use my service.  This is not the same class of issue as nerfed hardware like John Deere. Like it or not, there is a legitimate reason for legal copyright which is inherently different from property rights, and conflating the two completely undermines any legitimate point which you might wish to make.