>That puts the cost of DRM on everyone except the ones who want to freeload on our open tech to take our freedom away. This argument implicitly assumes that th

>That puts the cost of DRM on everyone except the ones who want to freeload on our open tech to take our freedom away. This argument implicitly assumes that the big cost of DRM is actually implementing the DRM. Everyone knows that isn't true. The social cost of DRM is the effect on the users' freedom, and if the users are using entirely proprietary applets they're probably less free than if they depend on a single proprietary library.