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
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    8 months ago

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

    • jayandp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The overhead isn’t the storage but the request. Processing a request takes CPU time, which can get expensive when people setup a media server and request subtitles for dozens of movies and shows. Every episode of a TV show is a separate request and that can add up fast when you scale it to thousands of users.