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[–] [email protected] 293 points 11 months ago (3 children)

5,719,123 subtitles from opensubtitles.org

Wanted to search the text of every subtitle

https://files.catbox.moe/lrmid1.torrent

Bless the data hoarders

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That only solves half the issue. The other half is everything released after the change.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! But I just found the former redditor/data hoarder who did all the real work.

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[–] [email protected] 252 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Finally: ClosedSubtitles

EDIT: Also, MAN, a lot of straight up bootlicking in this thread. What the fuck kind of pirates are you? lmao

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 90 points 11 months ago

OpenWalletsSubtitles

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago

Hey now, I'm sure they'll still gladly accept free labor for subtitle submissions!

[–] [email protected] 176 points 11 months ago (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

"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.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That doesn’t sound very open to me

[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (40 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I swear I read a thread here (on lemmy) recently that one of these subtitle sites was embedding ads in the subtitles. Now that takes things even further than scummier in my opinion, especially since subtitles are for availability.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I mean I've been a pirate for a WHILE and you generally do see ads on opensubtitles subs. Generally it's opensubtitles saying you can advertise with them, or credits for subtitles that stay on the screen for way too long, but this has been a thing forever now, I don't recall a time when this wasn't done.

I don't think I can take the moral high ground on it seeing as...well, I am a pirate lol. We out here doing our best to stay afloat, opensubtitles included.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 248 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 142 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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 😂

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

Ah the reddit formula

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (15 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

I also choose this guy's deaf wife

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you're looking for an alternative, I've had luck with https://subscene.com/

I don't really know what the best or most popular website is because this one has never really led me astray. That said, I don't need to use them too often, so your mileage may vary.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Finally, even OpenSubtitles gets enshittified.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

Subscene still exists, fortunately

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Subtitles are the easiest material to pirate :) I'm sure they don't have a copyright either.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ye, but the problem is the ease of discovery

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

THE BALLS TO EVEN OFFER A "BLACK FRIDAY" DEAL, HOLY FUCK

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

*its previous API

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

Excellent so now they'll be paying volunteers for their work!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (10 children)

man, they've change so much since 2017, where they were giving VIP membership out for free as a Christmas gift. Now they're making it so can't access the API for free anymore as a Christmas gift to themselves lmao

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why would you pirate a movie and then pay for subtitles? Makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And decent pirated movies/TV shows will already come with the subtitles embedded in the video container nowadays, which is great.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Huh... weird. I can't visit ClosedSubtitles.org.

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