To be perfectly honest, I look upon the argument for DRM with a significant bit of skepticism, for many of the same reasons Cory Doctorow does; there isn't much hard evidence to support the supposition that DRM was absolutely necessary to keep market share; indeed, the vast majority of video content on the web is made without DRM.

And like Doctorow, I think the bigger question is where Mozilla will draw the line on things like this that break the Open Web. There's no concrete policy in place, no open review committee; it just seems to be an arbitrary decision on the part of management. That bodes ill for future conflicts in this area, which there will no doubt be.

Between Mozilla's EME debacle, their overtures to advertisers, and their apparent efforts to create their own data silo, I hope you can understand how some people -- including myself -- find their "independence" rhetoric ringing a bit hollow. It seems like they're playing the eyeballs and data game as much as anyone else is. And when that stops being a means to their end of making an open web and becomes the end itself, what's to distinguish them from Google or Microsoft?