• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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    I’m actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn’t write the damn subtitles.

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      Also, wrong fucking audience. The people using this are pirating… what do they think is going to happen when they put a paywall in front 😂

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        Textbook shooting yourself in the foot, I really don’t know what they were hoping to gain. You already had a long-lasting reputation in the online community, now you’re a fucking scab

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          They weren’t gaining anything with the free service, now they might get a bit of money from it.

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        The uploaders often get VIP for free and what will happen is probably just good for them. Leechers aren’t the greatest for torrents nor services.

        I pay for it, because it’s cheap and I might as well.

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          IDK, if I was contributing subtitles for an open provider free of charge who shared them free of charge, I’d be glad my subtitles were helping people who needed them. Now that labor has been turned into capital and that rug has been pulled with no back-dated compensation or provisions for free subtitles for hard of hearing or something. It’s a shitty move across the board for everyone but the owner.

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            The subs are still free for casual users the ones that need to pay are power users that download through the API.

            The API users won’t upload subs or anything, website users are more likely to do that.

            I doubt I will switch provider because they seem to be the best by far and I download 1-2 files per movie/series automatically via Bazarr.

            If anyone knows any non shit options please tell me.

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              I would hardly consider ‘power users’ the ones who download via the API. I used to download them via BSPlayer, where it will prompt you in a nice user friendly interface if you needed subtitles for whatever you were watching. Well, that used the old OpenSubtitles API, and now that it’s gone it’s not gonna work anymore

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      …make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn’t write the damn subtitles.

      Ah the reddit formula

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        And ancestry dot com. That one still chaps my ass. My mom spent so much time in there adding in her work, and they just fucking locked it one day behind a paywall. Fuck these sites that just take the users hard work and then try and profit off it without announcing that from the get go.

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      This will just create new competition for them. I have been watching anime for several years and never once had to go through opensubtitles. Most releases now have the subtitles integrated so what is the value they bring to the whole thing?

      Edit: I just realized I’m replying the one an only db0, you are the best, cheers!

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
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        Anime is a different culture. Most non-anime stuff doesn’t have them embedded (especially the old stuff) and it’s still useful for finding subtitles for other languages

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        I use it primarily because the embedded subs are often in vubsub which fucking sucks and can’t be played probably on some devices, they also don’t scale probably.