[azakai]

> DRM in HTML5 means that you don't need Flash/Silverlight to play Netflix, etc. Which means that you can support video more easily.

You still need a closed-source DRM module, as a replacement for Flash or Silverlight. It doesn't make it any easier in that respect. It does provide a standard API between such DRM modules, though.

But yes, this is good for Google, as it does own one such DRM module (Widevine). So Google can push its own DRM and does not need to rely on third parties like Flash or Silverlight.

[AndrewDucker]

Yes, you still need the closed module - but all it does is decoding, which means that it's much smaller than Flash/Silverlight.

I wish the video companies didn't insist on it, but if we need to have something to keep them happy, I'd rather it was a simple decoder than a whole plugin runtime.