The HTML 5 video element has the potential to liberate streaming Internet … ...

So it should use the HTML5 video if you have opted into YouTube's HTML5 trial. This will only be used for new articles, but I went ahead and re-published the article you linked.

Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have teamed up to propose a copy protection protocol-- AKA DRM -- for HTML5 video. It's just a draft right now, but already the response from other W3C members has ...