[yellowapple]

If you're capable of actually consuming it (by seeing it with your eyes and/or hearing it with your ears), then it is possible to pirate it. Exactly zero DRM technologies today actually prevent piracy, and exactly zero DRM technologies ever will.

Meanwhile, user-hostile DRM can and will (and already does) push users to simply pirate the media in question instead of putting up with the DRM. Users lose, publishers lose, browser vendors lose, and pirates are entirely unaffected.

[Furmark]

Publishers win control over playback hardware market which probably outweighs the loss, or they would have stopped doing it.