NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates

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NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 21, 2012 @02:26AM from the why-duplicate-effort? dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word that NetFlix recently opened its streaming service in Finland and was promptly caught stealing movie subtitles from a local DivX community site. How were they caught? NetFlix failed to remove references to the pirate site in the subtitles.

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but they will waste no time by v1 · 2012-10-21 02:31 · Score: 5, Funny

telling us how piracy is hurting their business and costing them money!

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From TFA by MicktheMech · 2012-10-21 02:35 · Score: 4, Funny

"Online TV giant Netflix was closed captions unauthorized use of his pants down..."
I predict "unauthorized use of his pants down" to be the new "not want".
Google translate caught with his pants down by negablade · 2012-10-21 02:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Methinks Google translate is having trouble with Finnish to English. From TFA

Online TV giant Netflix was closed captions unauthorized use of his pants down, when the Finnish users ...
1. Re:Google translate caught with his pants down by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-21 02:56 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No that is normal in Finland, we like to get around with our pants down for Google.
  Possibly NSFW.
Capitalism at work by SlashRAH · 2012-10-21 03:06 · Score: 1, Funny

This is an excellent example of capitalism at work: they went with the lowest-cost supplier!
Re:Arrrrgg...... by JustOK · 2012-10-21 03:20 · Score: 5, Funny

They watch Arrrr-rated movies

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Re:subtiles by 1u3hr · 2012-10-21 03:45 · Score: 3, Funny

It's a subtle error.