Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM

Re:Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM by shakna on Sunday October 20, 2019 @06:09PM (#21307559)

You can get 1080p streams from Netflix on Linux (for 99% of their collection) by switching your user agent to ChromeOS. Their check is just:

    a = /CrOS/.test(a.userAgent);
    this.Fma = this.Aw = q.Gu.PV;
    this.Qm = [x.$l.nV];
    this.oo = [x.V.vA, x.V.wA];
    a && this.oo.push(x.V.TH);

It very much is _not_ "DRM not yet implemented".

Both Prime and Netflix are fully capable of streaming their highest quality under Linux - if you have the driver support.

Unfortunately they have a bunch of hacky stuff trying to prevent it, rather than allowing the user's browser is to make the decision.

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Re:Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM by stjohnswarts on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:31AM (#21309784)

That's one reason I use it. If they switch to nazi DRM I'll drop them. If Disney won't play on Linux meh whatever then on them. I'm sure they won't miss me, and I won't miss them much either.

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Re:Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM by nyuszika7h on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:53PM (#21308165)

Actually, you can’t get higher than SD for Amazon Prime Video since they started enforcing VMP a few months ago, which isn’t supported on Linux.

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Re:Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM by proc0 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:43PM (#21308950)

Yeah this means this was a business decision and not technical. They probably looked at user numbers for the different browsers.

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Re:Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM by eftychis on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:17PM (#21308007)

I can confirm that switching the user agent [used to] work[s]. (Disclaimer: haven't streamed for a while personally.)

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