Netflix Caught Using “Pirated” Subtitles in Finland
Found on TorrentFreak on Sunday, 21 October 2012
Instead of displaying official Finnish subtitles, Netflix was caught using DivX Finland’s fansubs on the Canadian-American science fiction series Andromeda. It’s possible that Netflix made this same ‘error’ for other TV-shows and movies as well.
“It’s nice to see that the texts are used, but they did not ask permission,” they wrote, adding a link a clip from the Netflix video where DivX Finland’s credits are clearly visible.
Last year footage from the dubbing room of the American anime distributor Funimation revealed how the company was also using ‘pirated’ subtitles.
As always, it's only bad when others do it. Bascially, Netflix is pirating content here, as well as Funimation did before (which has a really bad reputation as they throw their pile of lawyers at anything that even remotely has to do with an anime they licensed). So let's see them getting sued with fictional distribution numbers, causing them to pay billions of fictional losses like those people who download a song or anime episode.