This. People don't understand the forces at work here. They think we can get a coalition of free software advocates to prevent the march of DRM, but they fail

This. People don't understand the forces at work here. They think we can get a coalition of free software advocates to prevent the march of DRM, but they fail to realize that content rights-holders have market clout. Consumers will jump through whatever stupid hoops they put up. Meanwhile, free software advocates have no market clout, if they succeed in killing EME in a browser, then the general consumer perception will be that that browser is broken and will lose marketshare. This situation sucks, and I fought against it professionally for almost a decade, but at the end of the day if there's a market need for something, tech will be built for it in a completely amoral fashion.