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This is because all you dummies were too busy lauding Google's services and nobody notices how "evil" they are.

This came as a proposal from Google. It was tested in Chromium first. The DRM is essential for their "World-saving" ChromeOS that nobody really cares about.

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Yep, if Google implements DRM, no one can stop it. The web is a platform for big software vendors after all, because no other player can virtually implement and maintain this enlarged platform and browser runtimes. Evil browser vendors will take over the role of evil plug-in vendors. Game over.

I predicted this catastrophe when everyone was attacking Flash.

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