Just because we hate flash doesn't mean we should accept something worse to get rid of it.
You think the DRM blob would be less slow, less buggy, less closed and less resource-hungry than flash is and has been? Think again.
You think the DRM blob would be less slow, less buggy, less closed and less resource-hungry than flash is and has been? Think again.
In that case, a browser implementation could just write the unencrypted video to disk or re-stream it over http to other clients, without even having to do a new transcoding/compression (which costs cpu power and reduces quality).
The whole point of effective software video DRM is that the plugin must render the video to screen itself, and ideally in a way that doesn't let the attacker find the unencrypted stream in memory. Silverlight does this via PlayReady for example.