"Unethical" HTML video copy protection proposal draws criticism from W3C reps (ars technica)

Sorry but I disagree. The Web hasn't "solved" anything. There is a still a lot of proprietary content locked away by Silverlight and Flash DRM. These mechanism rely on a client-side plugin. They aren't irrelevantly small exceptions to the rule. These are rather large use cases that won't just magically disappear.

As much as I would like to believe otherwise, I think that either there will be some DRM compromise within HTML5 or Flash/Silverlight will still be required for certain services. Anyway W3C has shown with the h264/video element scenario that they are perfectly happy to entertain the idea of non-free technologies in their standards.