OpenSubtitles
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Type of site | Subtitles aggregator |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Country of origin | Slovakia |
| Founder(s) | Brano |
OpenSubtitles is a startup dedicated to the aggregation of subtitles for audiovisual works.
In 2022, OpenSubtitles was one of the 5,000 most accessed websites from the internet.[1]
History
[edit]OpenSubtitles was created in 2005 by the Slovakian Brano.[2]
In 2018, the Federal Court of Australia issued an injunction demanding the blockage of 181 sites linked to online piracy, including OpenSubtitles. The case was filed by companies such as Village Roadshow, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros.[3]
In October 2021, OpenSubtitles was hacked, with the attacker obtaining the personal data of nearly seven million subscribers. The hacker asked for BTC ransom. The company agreed, but the database was leaked on 18 January 2022.[4]
Services
[edit]OpenSubtitles offers subtitles in several languages. It uses IMDb ID as a basis for research, and it is possible to search for a subtitle using many methods, including multisearching. The website is available in XML format. OpenSubtitles also collaborate with torrent clients, such as myBittorrent and BitTorrent.[2]
Their subtitles can also be downloaded and uploaded by using the SubDownloader. The program is open source and programmed in python.[2]
Popularity
[edit]Shortly after its creation, their website was already the most popular subtitles resource from the internet.[2] In 2018, 69% of IMDb identifiers were associated with subtitles in at least 2 languages.[5] Many websites and programs use OpenSubtitles in their applications, including VLC media player,[2] YouTube[6] and Stremio.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Demartini, Felipe (19 January 2022). "Site de legendas tem vazamento de dados de 6,7 milhões de usuários" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Canaltech. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ a b c d e Star, Ernesto Van der (30 November 2006). "Interview with the Founder of Opensubtitles". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ Star, Ernesto Van der (20 December 2018). "Australian Court Orders ISPs to Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ Maxwell, Andy (19 January 2022). "OpenSubtitles Hacked, 7 Million Subscribers' Details Leaked Online". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ Lison, Pierre; Tiedemann, Jörg; Kouylekov, Milen (2018). "OpenSubtitles2018: Statistical Rescoring of Sentence Alignments in Large, Noisy Parallel Corpora" (PDF). In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ Pereira, Dimitri (7 May 2016). "Os 7 melhores serviços para colocar legendas em vídeos do Youtube" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Canaltech. Archived from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- ^ Herscovici, Omri; Gull, Omer (2017). "Hacked in Translation - from Subtitles to Complete Takeover". Check Point Software Technologies. Retrieved 14 March 2025.