That would be the dystopian outcome if the sites and browsers together diverged from open standards and started forcing DRM on everyone. What this standard act

That would be the dystopian outcome if the sites and browsers together diverged from open standards and started forcing DRM on everyone. What this standard actually specifies however, is only that the browser will respond to a certain tag by looking for some proprietary-ware to play whatever audio and/or video someone wants to restrict. This is a disappointing move on the part of w3c, because it lends some air of legitimacy to DRM, and because it revives the otherwise dying plugin system under a new name. But it doesn't actually force DRM on anyone or restrict the ability to do anything on the web. The best case would be that users are unwilling to install the black-box-ware in order to see videos or whatever, and the feature is little used and the copyright exploiters have to either unlock the content or go away with it. None of which would be bad.