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EME is for DRM'ing media. I don't see how that pertains to Flash.

WebAssembly exists as a replacement now, too.

Back in the days before the <video> tag, Web sites were using Flash to play video. Flash was also the main way to play DRMed video before EME.

If browsers didn't natively support DRM then they would have to come up with external extensions (such as Flash) to support DRM.

DRM isn't going away.

DRM should be inconvenient and expensive. There have always been ways to implement DRM security theater for the comfort of content providers in board rooms.

The media ecosystem is not going to be enhanced by making DRM more restrictive. Netflix could completely deactivate all DRM today, and it would change nothing.

Apple completely abandoned their "FairPlay" iTunes music DRM because it became evident that it was not needed.

Every single Netflix show is available on the pirate bay, but Netflix still insists on using DRM.

Because Hollywood mandates that legal distribution have DRM.

Apple in no way abandoned FairPlay. Every file on Apple Music, and iTunes Match is protected with it. And those greatly outnumber transactional sales through the iTunes store, by an order of magnitude. The customer picked the DRMed version, every time.

Because everyone else pirated to great effect.

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