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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 26 2018, @06:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the subtitles-provided-by-no-one dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

The founder of a site that provided fan-created subtitles has lost his appeal against a conviction for copyright infringement. In 2017 a Swedish court found that the unauthorized distribution of movie subtitles is a crime, sentencing the then 32-year-old to probation and a fine. The Court of Appeal has now largely upheld that earlier verdict.

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/founder-of-fan-made-subtitle-site-lose-copyright-infringement-appeal-180318/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Monday March 26 2018, @09:50PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday March 26 2018, @09:50PM (#658673) Homepage

    Even if creating subtitles does indeed violate copyright, what do the copyright holders gain by stopping the practice? All it does is mean that more people will buy their movies.

    Not necessarily. It could mean more people can pirate versions of their movies which are not subtitled, and apply the fan-made subtitles to them.

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