&gt;Fighting EME not only is ineffectual, it harms open web standards by giving legs to completely proprietary solutions like Flash and Silverlight. The bottom line is that EME is a cleaner solution which compromises in a way that will make open standards more relevant going forward rather than taking an ideological position that will undermine the utility of open standards in the marketplace.<p>Counterpoint: Flash and Silverlight, being &quot;unclean solutions&quot;, are fundamentally hampered - the market split, and &quot;HTML5&quot; won (for now). The mere existence of a widely-accepted &quot;clean solution&quot; could easily do more harm than good.