A Primer on Widevine and How It Can Be Abused to Download Encrypted Movies/Shows

The only downside, perhaps, is that this of course continues the cat and mouse game, leading to more and more devices being infected with DRM (see HDCP, or browsers including proprietary binary blobs to play back DRMed content).

The only alternatives will then be free alternatives or piracy. The optimist in me wants to think that this means DRM free content will proliferate, but the realist in me is thinking that's unlikely, as the money will always be with the DRM camp.