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A classic tactic used by conmen. Make the victim trust you, then snatch their belongings. Easier than open confrontation.
by gumballindie 3y ago
A classic tactic used by conmen. Make the victim trust you, then snatch their belongings. Easier than open confrontation.
- b112 3y agoWell, imdb.com did that without open in the name. Its entire initial database was crowd sourced, end users entering in data about movies, series, tv shows, basically it was wikipedia like. Then one day it said "oh, so sorry, now this is commercial"
- sumtechguy 3y agoAlso wasnt CDDB also the one where basically we ended up with creative commons license? The basic problem though is servers cost money and time to run. No one really wants to pay much for it. So these sorts of metadata sites come and go because they end up as the destination for popular 3rd party items to basically harvest their data. Then basically whoever runs it runs into an issue (job loss, crazy bill, anger, whatever) and says screw it this now costs money.
- solardev 3y agoEven open confrontation isn't open anymore
- timeon 3y agoLike Facebook/Instagram and others. Attract community and when they achieve network effect they can change rules the rules.
- sofixa 3y agoOr, people realising that their envisaged way of working is no longer or was never practical or self-sustaining. As much as you might love doing something for the sake of it, or for a community, at some point there are bills to pay. OpenSubtitles is something someone has to pay for, at some point. Especially with such cases, assuming malice is weird. The site wasn't acquired by some shady private capital or whatever entity jacking up prices for profit (like Broadcom with VMware), it's the same people(person?).