If there is one thing DRM actually makes sense for, it's for streaming content you don't own.

"The announcement is Netflix's latest chess move in their long game to blanket the web in DRM. Slipping a DRM delivery mechanism into the HTML5 standard is the online streaming giant's endgame."

Really? Netflix exists not to disrupt cable and bring streaming video to the masses (not to mention money to its investors), but to proliferate DRM?

I think it's a severe stretch to see breaking the dependency on Silverlight as a bad thing, and if you think rights holders are going to license their content to Netflix without DRM you are living in a fantasy world.