Before I used to have a subtitles website and mentioned I would downloads subs from his website (keeping any credits in filename or contents) he wasn't very ha

Before I used to have a subtitles website and mentioned I would downloads subs from his website (keeping any credits in filename or contents) he wasn't very happy (because my website would compete with him and take ad revenue from him) at the same time any "extension"/media player that downloads the subs can do it freely so was it ever open or not? just because my website had an easier to way to monetize unlike VLC extensions or wtv