To be fair, there were specific people at Google who _did_ fight the EME spec, including in the W3C discussion; the spec was written by the &quot;youtube&quot; part of Google, and the people who were more in the &quot;open web&quot; part of Google didn&#x27;t necessarily agree with it.  But yes, Google as a whole sure didn&#x27;t object and didn&#x27;t exactly delay implementing in Chrome...