I for one would love to see new browsers come forward and explicitly state that they are not implementing EME in any way, and see just how that plays out.<p>My optimistic (maybe too deeply rose colored) vision would be for viewership of EME-locked content to drop off so far that the companies using it have to give up and reopen distribution.
Note this only applies to a small number of websites: Netflix, Hulu, etc... And there are plenty of people who do not visit those websites from their primary computer.<p>So while this is definitely annoying, this is hardly the end for <i>all</i> the indie browsers -- just like EA banning Linux gamers does not mean that all gaming on Linux is dead.