[AndyMcConachie]

There were two choices moving forward.

1) The W3C allows EME to be standardized and we hopefully end up with a predictable standard.

2) The W3C not allow EME to be standardized and we end up with incompatible, proprietary and bug ridden DRM implementations.

People who think there was some other option are delduding themselves. The W3C made the right decision.

[azakai]

We still have incompatible and proprietary DRM implementations.

EME only standardizes the interface between them and the browser. The DRM itself is completely unspecified here - that's the problem.

[AndyMcConachie]

Still better than nothing.

[aanm1988]

I think option 2 is more accurately "google ignores them and does what they want, other browsers follow or get left behind".

Yay, we gave control of huge swaths of the internet to one ad company.