Thanks for explaining

Yep. I got that. But that's exactly the point of our disagreement. To put it pointedly, "let's keep the users just at the edge of their confort zone wrt. their tolerance of surveillance and control" amounts to me to slowly boiling the frogs.

Forcing Big Content to show their ugly fangs (as much as possible) just might be a better long-term strategy.

IOW I am convinced that the ugly RIAA lawsuits and carpet-bombing have done more for freedom than Gnash.

Now if constituents could get off their asses and vote those corrupt politicians who play along with secret trade agreements (TTIP, Trans-Pacific) out of office, that would be it.

Sorry for the political tangent, but the root of the problem *is* political, not technical.