NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates

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Posted by timothy on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:26AM
from the why-duplicate-effort? dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word that NetFlix recently opened its streaming service in Finland and was promptly caught stealing movie subtitles from a local DivX community site. How were they caught? NetFlix failed to remove references to the pirate site in the subtitles.

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but they will waste no time (Score:5, Funny)

by v1 (525388) writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:31AM (#41721479) Homepage Journal

telling us how piracy is hurting their business and costing them money!

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From TFA (Score:5, Funny)

by MicktheMech (697533) writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:35AM (#41721507) Homepage

"Online TV giant Netflix was closed captions unauthorized use of his pants down..."
I predict "unauthorized use of his pants down" to be the new "not want".

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Google translate caught with his pants down (Score:5, Funny)

by negablade (2745981) writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:37AM (#41721523)

Methinks Google translate is having trouble with Finnish to English. From TFA
Online TV giant Netflix was closed captions unauthorized use of his pants down, when the Finnish users ...

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Re:Google translate caught with his pants down (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:56AM (#41721661)

No that is normal in Finland, we like to get around with our pants down for Google [theregister.co.uk].
Possibly NSFW.

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Capitalism at work (Score:1, Funny)

by SlashRAH (1236462) writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:06AM (#41721715)

This is an excellent example of capitalism at work: they went with the lowest-cost supplier!

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Re:Arrrrgg...... (Score:5, Funny)

by JustOK (667959) writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:20AM (#41721795) Journal

They watch Arrrr-rated movies

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Re:subtiles (Score:4, Funny)

by 1u3hr (530656) writes: on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:45AM (#41721937)

It's a subtle error.

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but they will waste no time (Score:5, Funny)

From TFA (Score:5, Funny)

Google translate caught with his pants down (Score:5, Funny)

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Capitalism at work (Score:1, Funny)

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