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lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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.

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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, to memes in Stayin' Alive

Music is more accessible than ever.

That’s a good thing in my opinion.

lud, to memes in True

Wdym?

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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, (edited ) to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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, (edited ) to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

Lots of ads

Edit: also tv news is also a new concept.

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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

News is pretty expensive.

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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

lud, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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, to piracy in OpenSubtitles.org is shutting down it's previous API. Now only authenticated access allowed.

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

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