What is the complaint. It isn't clearly summed up here.
Noone will force you to use DRM on your website. Noone will force you to browse websites that use DRM.
What do you care what others choose to do with their sites and content, unless you believe you have the right to access everything everyone creates, in an unrestricted fashion, for free, in perpetuity.
The primary complaint is that, for the first time since the <embed> tag, W3C is creating an API that by design won't work on some systems.
If that isn't automatically bad to you on the face of it (it is to me, I want to be able to use random-OS-of-the-month as long as it has a good browser), you create a scenario where those on top stay on top by the grace of already being on top.
> Noone will force you to browse websites that use DRM.
If you want to stay legal and watch their content, you bet they will. Major networks will require their distributors to use this DRM. Sure, you don't have to use their content, but the point of fighting it is that we want to use their content and are trying to prevent them from this step.
Excellent point. We take away the previous held concept of possessing media, making money by renting it to you repeatedly, then lobbying Washington with the profits to make it illegal to not play by our rules, and you're addicted so you can't break the habit.
One complaint is that as the spec stands it's impossible to interoperably implement in browsers just by implementing the spec. You also have to go and do some out-of-band agreements which may or may not happen.
In other words, it's a "standard" that deliberately sets up a situation where behavior across browsers will differ.
Suggestions that the interface between the CDM and the browser actually be standardized have been made ... and ignored.
Noone will force you to use DRM on your website. Noone will force you to browse websites that use DRM.
What do you care what others choose to do with their sites and content, unless you believe you have the right to access everything everyone creates, in an unrestricted fashion, for free, in perpetuity.