Don't assume that hardware-level DRM will go away with the death of optical media. As I understand it, the media industry seems to have adopted a standard posit

Don't assume that hardware-level DRM will go away with the death of optical media. As I understand it, the media industry seems to have adopted a standard position that UHD/4K content should require hardware-level DRM. UHD Blu-rays require this sort of thing, but also UHD streams on Netflix; for this reason at least at one point UHD Netflix was restricted to Chromebooks only. Not sure if this is still the case; I'd expect Google's Widevine to get Intel DRM support if it hasn't got it already. You might want to look at Widevine's website; there's a small amount of information on the security levels. Essentially, there seem to be two levels of Widevine; what I'd describe as the placebo level (just obfuscated data processing within the browser, etc.) that might be used for e.g. HD Netflix, and the toxic-waste level which expects hardware-level DRM, which industry appears to be demanding as a minimum standard for UHD content. Consumer demand for UHD Netflix will continue to drive adoption of hardware-level DRM for the time being, it seems.