Exciting news for who? Only the site owner is excited that a free resource now requires a subscription

“Yay! Now I have to pay another subscription! I’m so excited! Let’s celebrate with them!” - nobody

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    432·
    11 months ago

    Subtitles are like 5kb text files, why even limit their downloads in any way?

    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      a typical (full subtitle) .srt file for a movie is like 100-200 kb - still not much, but 5 is a little off

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        If it’s all text, it’d compress quite well, especially since there’s likely lots of repeated words. Not to 5kb of course, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it had at least a 3x compression ratio with zstd.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      914·
      11 months ago

      Electricity aint exactly free. Even if the data they store is minuscule. Servers will pull >300w if you store 10gb or 2000gb.

          • LufyCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            You know what?

            If you gave me a datadump and a docker image, I’d host it, for free.

            Insane I know

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          610·
          11 months ago

          If a server costs X and the amount of free users is Y and VIP is Z then you’d need to create an equilibrium where you can make more money to sustain the infrastructure and have enough in case it goes belly up.
          Aka: If 10k users are free, and the income from VIP or ads is Z then you have to limit the capabilities of the free users to sustain the platform which in turn can stay (to some anount) free because the VIPs pay for it.
          Means: Limit API calls.