Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite

Swedish Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge reports that a fansite providing subtitles for movies has been raided by Swedish police at the behest of the copyright industry. "The movie subtitle fansite undertexter.se, literally meaning subtitles.se, is a site where people contribute their own translations of movies. This lets people who aren't good at the original language of a movie or cartoon put those fan-made subtitles – fansubs – on top of the movie or cartoon. Fansubbing is a thriving culture which usually provides better-than-professional subtitles for new episodes with less than 24 hours of turnaround (whereas the providers of the original cartoon or movie can easily take six months or more). What’s remarkable about this raid is that the copyright industry has decided to do a full-out raid against something that is entirely fan-made. It underscores the general sentiment of the copyright monopoly not protecting the creator of artwork, but protecting the big distribution monopolies, no matter who actually created the art."

Comments

Re:Fuck 'em

[ArcadeMan]

Either you're a troll or a fucking asshole who didn't even care to read the topic before posting his pro-RIAA/MPAA bullshit.

Re:Fuck 'em

[dywolf]

Nothing he said was trolling.
Nothing he said was BS.
Nothing he said was pro-RIAA/MPAA.

A producer, or creator or author or whatever you want to call him, has a fundamental right to profit off his created work (his "goods and services") the same as any other. Merely supporting that right is not the same as supporting the MPAA, nor is it BS.