I have no trouble understanding the strategic goal nerds have of trying to use standards body formalities and browser vendors to retard the development of DRM software they disfavor. There's nothing wrong with that (at least, nothing more wrong with it than all the other things that are wrong with standards groups).

Where you lose me is the notion that there's an intrinsic ethical imperative not to provide attachment points in standards for DRM. That doesn't ring true.