There aren't any, the DRM is tied to the 'container' and that's part of the standardization process here. Everybody 'hates' DRM, it seems but I don't think it'

There aren't any, the DRM is tied to the 'container' and that's part of the standardization process here. Everybody 'hates' DRM, it seems but I don't think it's going anywhere and I don't think you can ship a codec standard without it. You usually want hardware support for the DRM encryption. I don't know the specifics of their technology, but Netflix and Hulu and Amazon all stream tons and tons of media and I'd be surprised if it wasn't DRM'd in some capacity, I know the video apple sells/streams all is.