Hi WD , i just love my wd tv lives, i have one wd tv live hub, one wd tv live plus, and a wd tv live (the new one with wifi).
these devices are great great, BUT , as a non english speaker , i have to download a subtitle for every movie, tv show etc…
this task, is becoming a waist of time , i’ve being doing it for years by now .
but the other day, i was using BSPLAYER, on my laptop, and noticed that has a feature, which automatically downloads the subs, from several places , it let you choose which one u want.
This is an interesting topic. It appears to be copyright infringement (though I am no lawyer either). Since the script is copyrighted, this would be the same as distributing that without proper authorization.
Though not in the US, a Norwegian student was fined the equivilent of $2,450 for running a subtitle site in 2012. No money was being made in this enterprise.
TonyPh12345 wrote:
4- Downloading of subtitles from non-authorized sources would be considered distribution and thus would be illegal.
IANAL either but even the crazy content mafia lawyers won’t be able to construe downloading as distribution, only uploading. OTOH, they’re already pushing for tertiary liability, so who knows…
interesting, i thought there was no legal issue by creating subtitles.
You can create subtitles for your own use, you just can’t distibute them. Think of it like taking a book out of the library, and and hand re-typing it in a text editor. You could spend all the time you want doing that (why would you though), but you can’t then distribute that in either hard or soft copy. The publisher still owns that material, regardless of the fact that you re-typed it.