Comments on: Poland: Nine people held by police for translating movies

By: ZoppoTrump

ZoppoTrump — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:29:35 +0000

Oops, I made a mistake. The Czech subtitles web site that I thought had disappeared is still alive …

http://subtitles.images.o2.cz/

… I just got the url wrong. But of course I stand by everything I said about the rotten business of film licensing and film distribution. They are gangsters.

By: ZoppoTrump

ZoppoTrump — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:59:45 +0000

I’ve just discovered that another subtitles web site …

http://www.subtitles.images.o2.cz/

… has disappeared without a trace. It seems that Napisy is the victim of a far larger, probably Europe-wide operation. And this makes perfect sense when you think about it. Translating film subtitles and making them freely available undermines the con-business of film licensing and film distribution which aims to segregate national markets for the sole purpose of maximizing profits.

By: SliderOh

SliderOh — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:49:00 +0000

I can say for now that napisy.org will probably not return, although there is still a slight chance… but we HATAK (a group translating mainly TV series) and our friends KINOMANIA (mainly movies) will sure be interested in moving their services abroad. If anyone wants to help, napisy@hatak.pl

By: barteqx

barteqx — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:46:09 +0000

I hope the situation will change. Organizations like ZAIKS or FOTA do everything to make us “pirates”.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:01:05 +0000

I’m not sure how can you get in touch with admin of napisy.org but for sure you can easily contact with http://www.napisy24.pl/kontakt.php another polish subtitle group or kinomania.org - you will find email address on that page.

Regards

By: JvA

JvA — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:01:01 +0000

How do I get in contact with the team of Napisy.org? I would like to help them out by offer them free hosting in Sweden. As far as I know we have no laws that would forbid them to translate subtitles. Btw. I can’t speak polish.

By: xoxo

xoxo — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:03:07 +0000

That sucks ass. what a lame law.

Looks like the polish film corp can’t come out with good films so they need to keep people from seeing other foreign films. what other reason could there be?

By: Olek

Olek — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:36:47 +0000

DVD movie “The Last Dragon” and many others to, has no polish subtitles(voiceover mono only audio).The only way to watch movie with original soud is ripping dvd to hdd,then add subtitle.Its …..?