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.

[+] lud@lemm.ee -13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

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

Ah the reddit formula

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 points 2 years ago

i didnt know that! fuuuuuck those peoples