When reading the beginning of the article, I did not get what the big deal was. It seemed to me that W3C just wanted to standardize existing DRM on the web and

When reading the beginning of the article, I did not get what the big deal was. It seemed to me that W3C just wanted to standardize existing DRM on the web and if you did not want to use DRM, then do not visit the site. But then I came to the part where developers can be sued under DMCA for trying to reverse-engineer the DRM (which inhibits new browsers, if they do not want to use proprietary binary blobs) and worst of all: It would be a return to the bad old days of websites that advised that they were "Best viewed with Netscape" or "Best viewed with Internet Explorer," because the new browsers would be locked out of some of their content.