[zinekeller]

Nope, I don't think EME is the reason piracy has another boom. Looking at music stats, while there is still a thriving piracy community most people now gave up and pay for music streaming services, and it's easy to see why. Most record companies and artists (reluctantly) accept that it'll be better if there's something rather than nothing and you could access the same catalogues from one app to the next (there are obscure asterisks but for 80-90% of people it's not a bother). On the other hand, studios are still deep in denial about that simple fact and have tried to slice-and-dice access to movies, which as you might have seen led to the revival of movie piracy.

To simplify, for music you just choose if you want the additional services offered by Spotify or Apple and not focusing on what catalogue it has (barring some obscure asterisks), while this is the polar opposite has happened on music industry and now you are either actively researching where goes what or just gave up and pirate. As Gabe Newell has said, give the consumers a better service and they'll use it. Record companies succumbed and quietly accept this, studios don't (and I'll wager that they will eventually accept to have a single service).