Problem is that Netflix &amp; co are stuck with Flash or similar because content owners will not allow it to be streamed&#x2F;provided without DRM. So currently it&#x27;s Flash with no alternative.<p>EME is not the ideal situation from the consumer&#x27;s PoV, but it&#x27;s on par with flash (maybe a bit better) and preferable to nothing* .<p>It would be a net loss if previously unencrypted content would now become encrypted, but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s likely as a host like say Youtube already had access to DRM&#x2F;encryption in their Flash player even before HTML5 video was a thing but never used it. I thus expect it to be mostly a net gain&#x2F;neutral.<p>* If you personally think nothing is preferable over watching content with EME: great, don&#x27;t use it. But forcing that choice upon others is not better.