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In Chinese, it always added something like "For study/research purpose only. Please delete after 48 hours." This is what those volunteers added in subtitles of
by ttflee 1y ago
In Chinese, it always added something like "For study/research purpose only. Please delete after 48 hours." This is what those volunteers added in subtitles of (pirated) movies/shows.
- cyp0633 1y agoThat is not the case here - I never encountered this with whisper-large-v3 or similar ASR models. Part of the reason, I guess, is that those subs are burnt into the movie, which makes them hard to extract. Standalone subs need the corresponding video resource to match the audio and text. So nothing is better than YouTube videos which are already aligned.
- simsla 1y agoAt least for English, those "fansubs" aren't typically burnt into the movie*, but ride along in the video container (MP4/MKV) as subtitle streams. They can typically be extracted as SRT files (plain text with sentence level timestamps). *Although it used to be more common for AVI files in the olden days.
- ethbr1 1y agoflashbacks of trying to track down subs sync’d to a specific release
- Maken 1y agoSRT is ancient. Nowadays everyone uses ASS subtitles which can be randomly styled.
- simsla 1y agoIn general? In the past I've known ASS to be used a lot for things like anime, but less for live action shows.
- Maken 1y agoI have also found them inside mkvs as the subtitle track. I think SRT was the default because most content was ripped from DVD/BD, but now most of the content is from streaming sources and you need to convert the subtitles anyway.
- conradev 1y agoWebVTT (a SubRip successor) is probably more widely used than ASS
- Maken 1y agoBy legit providers, probably.
- codedokode 1y agoFair, if AI companies are allowed to download pirated content for "learning", why ordinary people cannot.
- snickerdoodle12 1y agoThere is so much damning evidence that AI companies have committed absolutely shocking amounts of piracy, yet nothing is being done. It only highlights how the world really works. If you have money you get to do whatever the fuck you want. If you're just a normal person you get to spend years in jail or worse. Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GptobqPsvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GptobqPsvg
- 4gotunameagain 1y agoIf you owe the bank $1,000 you have a problem. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 the bank has a problem. We live in an era where the president of the United States uses his position to pump crypto scams purely for personal profit.
- kyleee 1y ago10% for the big don
- alphan0n 1y agoNo one (in the US) has been jailed for downloading copyrighted material.
- snickerdoodle12 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz And the US is not the only jurisdiction
- gruez 1y agoThat's not the same as piracy though. He wasn't downloading millions of scientific papers from libgen or sci-hub, he was downloading them directly from jstor. Indeed, none of his charge was for copyright infringement. It was for stuff like "breaking and entering" and "unauthorized access to a computer network".
- kgeist 1y agoInteresting, in Russian, it often ends with "Subtitles by %some_username%"