[duncan_bayne]

What is the purpose of a standards based approach, if one cannot implement the standard? That is the reality that EME + CDM offers: 'standards' that can only be implemented by the company that owns the proprietary, closed-source CDM blob.

[mcv]

So the only solution is to make the propriety, closed-source CDM blob independent from the browser. Something that can be plugged into any browser. Like Flash or Silverlight. Or maybe something more specialized that just handles the DRM with as little overhead as possible, to make sure it doesn't eat up more CPU than it should.

If it cannot be open, it cannot be part of browsers that are open, which a lot of browsers are.