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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 248 points 2 years ago

I'm actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.

[-] Kerrigor@kbin.social 142 points 2 years ago

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 😂

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago

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

[-] biddy@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

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

Ah the reddit formula

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 years ago

Always assume that's the ultimate goal with for-profit services.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

I always assume that. My mom was getting up there in age, and just having a fun time entering in her work. She had no clue that would happen, until it did.

[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

If it's not fully for profit now, it will be later

[-] ogeist@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.com 26 points 2 years ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 2 years ago

i didnt know that! fuuuuuck those peoples

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