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Why does anybody expect that only Hollywood movies would be DRM protected?

Wouldn't DRM be also "about Youtube" and any other web video streaming site (including Facebook?) as soon as it standardized -- practically preventing you to do anything you can do now except watching?

(Now you can actually capture the videos and play them offline).

If you believe DRM wouldn't be used, please present your arguments why it wouldn't.

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Almost no one uses the DRM that's already available in Flash[1] and Silverlight today so it's not obvious that EME would lead to increased use of DRM. In practice, using EME is going to be expensive because you'll need N key servers (one for PlayReady, one for Widevide, one for OMA, one for FairPlay, etc.) and each one costs over $10,000 AFAIK and requires a bunch of integration code.

[1] I'm talking about Flash Access not RTMPE because AFAIK RTMPE doesn't meet Hollywood's robustness requirements.

Hollywood is pushing DRM and requiring its use. Netflix wants DRM (via Hollywood), but Youtube doesn't currently seem to mind being DRM free.

If DRM capability becomes ubiquitous, Youtube might become DRMed, but that's on a longer time horizon.

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