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The subtitle site that replaces this one will just link to torrents and be hosted in China. Movie lawyers can't do anything about it.
by dobbsbob 13y ago
The subtitle site that replaces this one will just link to torrents and be hosted in China. Movie lawyers can't do anything about it.
- toyg 13y ago... until China needs a favour from the WTO. 15 years ago I thought we'd fix this crap with technology. It didn't happen, and it's not going to happen anytime soon. Unfortunately, it's a political problem that we'll have to solve with good laws.
- madaxe 13y agoThis is what TPP is for. Bugger all to do with promoting trade, plenty to do with copyright enforcement.
- MichaelGG 13y agoOr it moves to a decentralized or anonymized system. Subtitles are small enough that distributing them over a system such as Tor is quite feasible. Then have people use public Tor-relays (sites that let you use abcbla.onion.whateverrelay.net to access Tor with a normal web browser) to access it. Shutting down a proxy that has nothing to do with the content should be far more difficult.