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lud, (edited )

Lots of ads

Edit: also tv news is also a new concept.

lud,

It’s often more comprehensive than what opensubtitles have to offer. I often struggle to get tv episodes with subs in my native language, but all the streaming services obviously has it.

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How much money do you think they would have made if they gave away all their content for free.

News is pretty expensive.

lud,

Ads have existed for an extremely long time.

And most news has cost money since forever.

Tv news is a relatively new development and TV news is entirely founded by ads and as a way to drive viewers to a channel to keep them for other programmes.

lud,

I don’t know who they are but it’s quite evident that they at least we’re a very small group in the beginning.

I also haven’t seen any evidence that there is an evil corpo controlling them or something.

Occam’s razor

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Again completely ignoring the point…

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News has never historically been free, only recently through the web and founded by ads.

lud,

I am not familiar with who owns who in the USA. I do know that news wouldn’t get made if no one wanted to pay for it.

lud,

Relatively new compared to news. Either way it doesn’t matter, my point was that it’s funded by ads.

Tv news also drives viewers to a channel which is probably the main purpose of it.

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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.

lud,

You talk like they are owned by some huge corporation and this was their plan from the beginning.

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Again, that was not my point.

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Their website is still free and every legal way to watch movies already includes subtitles.

lud, (edited )

They did do donations but maybe it wasn’t enough 🤷 blog.opensubtitles.com/…/thank-you-for-donations

It wouldn’t surprise me if “VIP” was originally a tier given for donations which had some benefits.

Edit: that’s indeed the case blog.opensubtitles.com/…/free-vip-membership-for-…

lud,

It sucks, sure. But it’s been free for a really long time, and it costs money to run a service.

You can’t really expect that a service will serve an increasing amount of people free stuff forever.

At least making people visit the site will encourage them to upload and help keep the service up.

Btw, it’s not expensive and if you think it is. Just use some other service.

lud,

Why are you so stuck on the tv thing?

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True, but quite often the subtitles are in vobsub which sucks.

lud,

I mentioned it as a sidenote. It’s not important, forget about it.

Either way it’s subjective and honestly 80 years is not that long, but who cares 🤷

lud,

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.

lud,

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.

lud,

People in this community can be a bit extreme when it comes to never paying for stuff and the need to justify it.

I also like piracy but the constant justifications attempts are pretty annoying.

lud, (edited )

Absolutely. I feel like his videos were more “reasonable” before. Now they’re all clickbait and outrage with angry thumbnails.

lud,

Music is more accessible than ever.

That’s a good thing in my opinion.

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Wdym?

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