If there is a plethora of hostile, wide-reaching proprietary DRM implementations, then surely this scenario will suck from the average end user's perspective, h

If there is a plethora of hostile, wide-reaching proprietary DRM implementations, then surely this scenario will suck from the average end user's perspective, hindering the adoption of DRM. Helping the W3C create a standard, friendly and well-engineered DRM solution just means that the opposition to DRM will be reduced to a handful of internet freedom extremists who don't constitute a significant market segment anyway.