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> If we're going to transition to a plug-in free web then we need HTML5 video to support these extensions.

So, a plugin-free web that requires plugins?

Smaller specialized standard plugins.

Smaller, specialized, closed-source plugins that are practically guaranteed to become attack vectors.

Personally, I'm glad Flash is dying and am not in any real hurry to replace it.

No, it doesn't require plugins. The EME approach is agnostic to whether the "decryption module" is implemented by the OS, the browser, or a plug-in. Nothing specifies where they come from, but in practice I think they will usually be provided by the OS. We'll have to see what browsers end up doing. There will probably be a variety of approaches.

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