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5,719,123 subtitles from opensubtitles.org
Wanted to search the text of every subtitle
Bless the data hoarders
That only solves half the issue. The other half is everything released after the change.
They just need a paid account and they can keep appending to it.
"Open"subtitles has like a 1k dowload/day limit, which should cover most media.
you da mvp!
Thanks! But I just found the former redditor/data hoarder who did all the real work.
Still, very much appreciated by us deafies!
Finally: ClosedSubtitles
EDIT: Also, MAN, a lot of straight up bootlicking in this thread. What the fuck kind of pirates are you? lmao
So much for “open”
OpenWalletsSubtitles
Hey now, I'm sure they'll still gladly accept free labor for subtitle submissions!
Jesus, reading comprehension is hard to come by eh? How have so many people struggled to actually read this?
They aren't requiring payment, nor are they requiring you to sign in or create an account.
They are transitioning from an old API to a new one. The new API (and the site itself) is ad supported and rate limited; 5 downloads per day unauthenticated, double that for a free account, or 'VIP' accounts have higher limits and no ads.
It's not authenticated access only, nor is it paid access only.
"It's not paid, you can pay by watching ads and get a laughable amount of downloads per day for free!"
Sometimes you have to cycle through many subtitles to find the right one. They don't even produce them.
In the era of VPN, many users share the same IP too. You can reach the limit before downloading anything.
That doesn’t sound very open to me
Title is a bit misleading. Starting with 2024 the site will be moving to a new API. The payment is too be able to continue to use the old API a while longer (for software that can't be changed yet).
How... how could you possibly start trying to profit off of a major resource for accessibility to movies. That's scummier than scummy. Fuck you OpenSubtitles, you're the fucking Elon Musk and Steve Huffman of deaf people everywhere. Get absolutely fucked.
ha, i love how their reasoning tried to not point out the obvious: money
upgrade to vip for a better user experience! (cuz we made the other one shitty on purpose cuz money)
im not faulting them for charging a price for a service, just dont blow smoke up my ass for why youre doin it.
I'm actually faulting them for trying to make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.
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 😂
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
.....make money off a crowdsourced service. They didn't write the damn subtitles.
Ah the reddit formula
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!
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
See, I get when YouTube or some such are asking for some kind of payment, since transcoding and delivering all those large video files is expensive as fuck. Yet, Open subtitles delivers text. Fucking. Text. The rest is done for them for free by the users. No, folks. You ain't getting any money.
My wife is deaf, and I take this VERY fucking personally. This is predatory to an already (unfortunately) overlooked demographic of movie lovers, I will absolutely rally against this bullshit.
I also choose this guy's deaf wife
Subscene still exists, fortunately
Excellent so now they'll be paying volunteers for their work!
Subtitles are the easiest material to pirate :) I'm sure they don't have a copyright either.
Ye, but the problem is the ease of discovery
Yeah probably all integrations are gonna break 😐
I hate them for injecting embedded ads to subs anyways, so hopefully they ruins the platform more so an alternative can emerge.
*its previous API
Why would you pirate a movie and then pay for subtitles? Makes no sense.
And decent pirated movies/TV shows will already come with the subtitles embedded in the video container nowadays, which is great.
even better, pirate a movie, then pay to play the subtitles roulette where you download 30 identical files that differ only on the timing
Huh... weird. I can't visit ClosedSubtitles.org.
As far as I understand they are shutting down open subtitles.org API, but the jellyfin plugin uses the .com version. The free account there is limited to 20 downloads per day via API