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It's annoying when Netflix or Amazon gets exclusive rights to a show. You either need to wait for fansubs (and you'll only get them for the most popular shows after a wait) or deal with this bullshit.
I used to do fansub work a lifetime ago. Is it still a thing? Might look into it if so. But I remember there was weird issues with copyright, like your hard work was basically illegal and got deleted randomly
Fansubs are way less common than they used to be, because in the last years Crunchyroll's subs were just good enough. People are not waiting for new fansub releases, but go for what's available right now. There's no point doing something that nobody cares about, so no wonder many fansub groups ceased their work. That said, there still are some groups that make fansubs, but very often they base their work on already existing Crunchyroll subs and mostly just apply different typesetting, provide/improve translations for on-screen text, and fix some awkward dialogues/timing. For example in the last season Commie group was releasing The Ghost in the Shell with improved subs, because Amazon subs did not translate on-screen text. As for legality, they're providing releases via torrents, of course it's illegal. I don't know who and from where is supposed to delete your subs. I guess, nyaa could get taken down...
I looked it up and it seems that A.I. stole this old hobby of mine as well lol
There are some people who try to provide MTL subs, but they all have abysmal quality and no person with an iota of self-respect watches these
That's great to hear. It always makes me sad when LLMs keep stealing all my hobbies 😂 maybe I'll transcribe an obscure movie or something for old time's sake…
There is another reason: a lot of the people doing official subs used to do fan subs.
There is still demand (from me!) and fansubbers are organized pretty well these days, I haven't heard of any takedowns for a while.