Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free!

Moonrise2473@feddit.it to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 964 points –

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

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Why is it called "OpenSubtitles" if you have to pay for it to use it in any capacity?

Probably because anyone can contribute to it. But you have to pay to use them.

Kinda like another website that recently made this change...

It’s “Open” in the same way that OpenAI is “Open”.

“Open” ≠ “Open Source” or “Open Access”. It’s more like: “Open for Business”.

Is OpenAI a regular business too?

According to Wikipedia, it's a non profit with a for profit subsidiary. Interpret that how you will. Nothing shady or deceptive here.

Anything involving software that uses the word "open" in its title should be legally required to be open source.