&gt;  The EFF greatly overestimates the amount of influence browser makers have.<p>The only reason the MAFIAA is lobbying the W3C and bribing Microsoft &#x2F; Google &#x2F; et al to support their backwards DRM is <i>because</i> the web has leverage over them.<p>There would have been no market for this if there was not publisher demand for baked-in proprietary DRM at the browser level, because they <i>knew</i> they were constantly losing revenue depending on broken flash &#x2F; silverlight plugins.<p>If these companies had not caved to their demands, they would have had to accept gradual obsolescence since the web would have been wholly incompatible with their outdated business model. <i>Because</i>, up until this point, the web has been demonstrably more important to people than access to traditional big media IP, because they <i>were</i> losing revenue and market share.