[micro_softy]

Avoiding DRM is easy. Avoid corporate-sponsored browsers.

Writing programs that download files is not beyond the capabilities of average programmers. And internet users have ample access to open file formats and source code to read and write them.

Who controls media formats? Who controls media players? "Browser"? What is that?

A program to "browse" hypertext has evolved into something with far more functionality than is actually required for digesting media. As this complexity grows the notion of the "browser" will continue to be used to the greater advantage of corporations engaged in commerce, not users.

Proprietary browsers, or ones that are too complex for ordinary programmers to compile from source, can be the equivalent of proprietary media formats and proprietary media players, in effect.

The greatest opportunity to avoid DRM is in choice, not steering committees. Choice, as in, choice of what software to use. And that includes "browsers".

Think outside the browser. Thank you.