[khedoros1]

> If fighting DRM meant ceding ground from the open web platform to plugins and native apps, then that doesn't seem like a good way to benefit the web.

Giving in to DRM seems to mean ceding ground to a binary-blob plugin, increasingly implemented such that it can't be removed from the browser. The difference that I see is that we're normalizing something that shouldn't be normalized, and killing off the open web in favor of corporate interests. It's a reasonable, practical concession, and simultaneously a step toward the death of what makes the web useful for things beyond entertainment.