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Im sure most of the $9 a month I used to spend went to paying for licensed content but I watched probably 80% original content. I left because of DRM. I don't know if it would be a money making venture for them but, for $5 a month, I would subscribe to a Netflix Original content only, DRM free service if they offered it. Seems like it'd be easy for them to do a trial run of such a thing.

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You won't get DRM free, because Netflix don't sell you the content, they rent it. Or, more specifically, they sell you access to the platform to stream the rented content.

I'm all for DRM-free purchases, but you're never going to get DRM-free rentals.

Their stuff, and everyone elses, is easily available for download, DRM free, without a fee of any kind. DRM has never stopped that. Netflix knows that. I have no doubt DRM is required for every contract they have with other studios, but they could show they're not fools by allowing me to stream their original content without having to allow closed, proprietary binaries to run on my machine to do it. I have no interest in maintaining terabytes of video and manually managing distribution to multiple device. I don't think many people would. I'd rather pay the $5 a month. I won't enable DRM in my browser, ever.

What's the exact part of the DRM that bothers you?

Personally I hate the restrictions such as "4K only on Kaby Lake with Edge etc" and I downgraded my subscription because of it.

All parts of DRM bother me equally.

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