Making this as a battle is silly. For contractual reasons, companies need to distribute content with DRM. They _want_ to use a more open method than Flash or Silverlight.<p>The choice is between proprietary plugins with drm bundled, or a standard way of encrypting video streams.<p>Not letting it into HTML5 won't make content owners give up on DRM-- those deciding whether their content must be protected are almost certainly ignorant of the technical implementations.<p>Is it a battle if the other side doesn't even notice your action?