&gt; Netflix was the largest site using Flash.<p>Netflix didn&#x27;t use Flash; it used Silverlight.<p>&gt;  don&#x27;t disagree with what you say, but it&#x27;s possible to see EME as a pragmatic inevitability, assuming that browsers want to get rid of plugins<p>Or browsers could just collectively get rid of plugins, and the media industry could whine ineffectually at the lack of DRM.  They&#x27;re not going to build their own browser, and people wouldn&#x27;t use it if they did.  Netflix wouldn&#x27;t go away; millions of people would complain if it stopped working.