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You cannot really justify streaming without DRM and the studios will never agree too it. The problem is having DRM as part of the HTML specification because it will harm the web as a whole.

I much prefer it to stay the way it is with silverlight.

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Why would having DRM as part of the HTML specification hurt the web ? I am not in favour of DRM but these who want to protect their content always find a way (silverlight). It would probably be simpler for everybody if it was part of HTML.

Well for one it will cause a lot of friction with the open source community as they are generally very anti proprietary/close code which in turn will cause fragmentation in the browsers. I don't really know why, but I would prefer HTML to be free from DRM and use plugins to implement such things.

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