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Am I a traitor for accepting Netflix (and their DRM) the same way I accept Steam (and their DRM)?

Of course, I don't "accept" Netflix because they don't "accept" me as a Linux user, so I'm not really dying to go to bat for them.

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I accept Netflix and Steam over cable/movie theaters/gamestop the same way I accept nuclear power (over burning fossil fuels). They are really the only solutions that have any non-zero chance of succeeding in our present day economic/political environment.

Sure, they have their downsides and there are way better solutions that one can envision, and they are light years better than the things they are meant to replace and our world isn't ready yet for the better alternatives.

And thanks to HTML DRM Netflix will now remain the only provider with a non-zero chance of succeeding. Great Job all around, pat on the back to the monopoly holders. Well done.

Sorry, did I miss something? Is Netflix the only provider allowed to use HTML DRM?

DRM isn't the reason why Netflix has such a big market share (I have no idea how one could even make that connection).

I don't think most people have any idea how the DRM extensions for HTML5 work, frankly.

Netflix is far from a monopoly on either users or content.

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