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Tim Berners-Lee is spinning in his grave and he's not even dead yet.

>>kmeist+(OP)
Are you sure? He was the one who green-lighted Encrypted Media Extensions, the earlier, unfortunately successful attempt to shoehorn proprietary DRM blob into browsers.

>>goku12+Au7
DRM blobs were already in browsers, it's the only reason why Hollywood let streaming services have websites at all. First it was trojan-horsed through Flash Player and Silverlight, and then individual browsers all licensed or built their own solutions[0] to make "plugin-free" DRM happen.

The attitude of the W3C was basically "we either kiss the ring or Hollywood forks us". So I can totally imagine Tim Berners-Lee spinning in his nonexistent grave then too. That doesn't mean he's Stallman levels of freedom-or-death.

[0] AFAIK, Google bought Widevine, Apple uses FairPlay, and Mozilla originally used Adobe but now uses Chrome's Widevine library.