You are right about him contradicting himself, but I think first half (rather first 2/3) of his post are just philosophical beating around the bush. He nearly l

You are right about him contradicting himself, but I think first half (rather first 2/3) of his post are just philosophical beating around the bush. He nearly lost me half-way through. But what he's actually trying to say is that if W3C won't standardize some form of DRM, publishers lobby will fill the gap. And whatever comes out of that lobby will be thousand times worse for the users and implementers. I don't necessarily agree with that, but this is the message of that blog post. A lot of users want their internets work fast and without glitches on their PC from 2003, under WinXP and IE8. In order to satisfy interests of those users we must stop introducing new CSS features and JS extensions. That's just how sad the world we live in is. I tend to think that publishers aren't as powerful as they used to be. Browser market is dominated but rather open Chrome and Mozilla still going strong. Duopoly of iOS and Android is quite dangerous though - if these two reach any agreement, W3C opinion won't matter.