[penguindev]

A comprehensive post. Just to add to 2) Chromebooks are DRM friendly, and chromecasts are locked as well. Google bought wildvine DRM and my guess is DRM can be pretty much expected to win for media/software, since hardware makers are on board and they've had enough tries to get the crypto implemented right. Even intel cpus have DRM on board (intel insider). The only threat to DRM now is it relies on human beings keeping secrets [edit: and having as few people / companies who know the master secret as possible], so if the economic value in breaking it is high enough, someone will get paid off / extorted to leak it... whereas 1) is probably safer from attack, and 3) can get hit by adblock+ right now...

Definitely fun watching the battle play out, and as a programmer with a family to feed I must admit I'm hoping for a way to value virtual creative goods that isn't $0.00 :-)