The Polish Movie Subtitles Market Banned (napisy.org etc.)

mlody

18 May 2007 / #1

I've heard they banned distribution of Polish subtitles in Poland used the English versions of movies? The Polish police closed down napisy.org - the most popular Polish website offering free movie subtitles in Polish.

For me they went too far - many people used them to learn English, for example :}

Found more info:

"Nine people involved in a community portal Napisy.org were held for questioning by the Polish police forces this Wednesday. They will be probably be accused of publishing illegal translations of foreign movies (which is forbidden by Polish copyright law). Napisy.org website was shut down immediately afterwards by the German forces (since the servers were located in Germany). The service was the most popular Polish on-line portal where users were free to submit translated subtitles for popular movies."

yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/18/1428207

Gungi

18 May 2007 / #2

For me they went too far - many people used them to learn English, for example :}.

LOL. Subtitles were used for pirate movie copies. Don’t make Poland a police state just because they have closed pirate website.

OP mlody

18 May 2007 / #3

LOL. Subtitles were used for pirate movie copies.

Well, maybe you used them this way. I don't think translating a movie script from English to Polish makes the owners or contributors "pirates" or "criminals".