if this is supposed to encourage transcoding to alternate formats and distribution through unsanctioned channels, its working, just as well as its worked in the past.<p><a href="https://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/06/chrome-widevine-exploit-makes-streaming-piracy-easy.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/06/chrome-widevine-exp...</a><p><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-googles-widevine-drm-l3-only/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-researcher-cracks-goo...</a><p>"This Disney+ failure happens while the likes of Netflix, Amazon Video, and Hulu work fine due to a difference in their Widevine handling. Linux browsers (as well as some Android devices) only support Widevine Level 1 while Disney+ requires the highest level security features thereby blocking out the support."<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine</a><p>from hans himself:<p>...So I subscribed for the testing period, problem all devices in my home run Fedora. I started up Firefox and was greeted with an "Error Code 83", next I tried Chrome, same thing.<p>So I mailed the Disney helpdesk about this
they eventually got back to me in about a week.
They wrote: "We are familiar with Error 83. This often happens if you want to play Disney + via the web browser or certain devices. Our IT department working hard to solve this. In the meantime, I want to advise you to watch Disney + via the app on a phone or tablet. If this error code still occurs in a few days, you can check the help center ..." this was on September 23th.<p>Their so called help-center does not even know about "Error Code 83" even though the internet is full of people experiencing this. Note that this error also happens a lot on other platforms, it is not just Linux.<p>Someone on tweakers.net has done some digging and this is a Widevine error:<p>"the response is: {"errors":[{"code":"platform-verification-failed","description":"Platform verification status incompatible with security level"}]}".<p>Widevine has 3 security levels
many devices, including desktop Linux and many Android devices only support level 1.<p>In this case e.g. Netflix will not offer full HD or 4k resolutions, but otherwise everything works fine, which is a balance between DRM and usability which I can accept.<p>Disney+ OTOH seems to have the drm features kranked up to maximum draconian settings and simply will not work on a lot of android devices, nor on Chromebooks, nor on desktop Linux."