Disney+ Does Not Work On Linux Devices

'If you plan on streaming content from the new Disney+ streaming
service on Linux devices, you'll likely be greeted with Error Code 83.
Fedora Linux package maintainer Hans De Goede from the Netherlands
first made the unpleasant discovery. gHacks reports:

De Goede noticed that Disney+ would not work in any of the web
browsers that he tried on systems running Fedora Linux. He tried
Firefox and Chrome, and both times Disney+ threw the error "error code
83." Disney+ Support was not able to assist de Goede. It replied with
a generic message stating that the error was known and that it
happened often when customers tried to play Disney+ in web browsers or
using certain devices. Support recommended to use the official
applications on phones or tablets to watch the shows or movies. Other
streaming services, e.g. Netflix, work fine on Linux.

A user on the Dutch site Tweakers dug deeper and uncovered the
response code that the site returned when a device or browser was used
that could not be used to play streams. According to the information,
error code 83 means that the platform verification status is
incompatible with the security level. Disney uses the DRM solution
Widevine to protect its streams from unauthorized activity. Widevine
supports three different security levels, called 1, 2 and 3, which
have certain requirements. The supported level determines the maximum
stream quality and may even prevent access to a stream if the
requirements are not met. It appears that Disney set Widevine to a
more restrictive level than its competitors. The decision affects
Disney+ on Linux devices and on other devices that don't support the
selected Widevine security standard. '

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/10/21/2128213

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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