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"Spain isn't cool with you being able to understand foreign films.\nWe've talked about in the past how the anime community comes together (and has for years) to subtitle and distribute translated versions Japanese and other Asian cartoons.\u00A0 WikiSubtitles does a similar service, taking English videos and translating and subtitling them in Spanish using the community that has formed in the wiki community for it.\nTorrentFreak was tipped by WikiSubtitles admin Smalley that the Spanish Anti-Piracy Federation has sent them a cease and desist:\n\u201CToday I received a beautiful copy and paste notification from the Anti-Piracy Federation, which warns me that if we do not close the site, they will take legal action against me. I will engage a lawyer to advise me, but we may close Wikisubtitles temporarily as we clarify the matter. I hope from my heart that this is not the end of Wikisubtitles.\u201D\nWikiSubtitles was initially simply taken offline by their hosting company BlueHost.\u00A0 It isn't clear as to whether WikiSubtitles was contacted beforehand, or if it was a direct result of the complaint, but it was later put back online when the offending material was taken offline.\nObviously this is an abuse of process, since there was no trafficking of pirated materials taking place here.\u00A0 All translations were generated by the community, and was original derivative content that could only augment the sales of the existing media (or perhaps I'm underestimating the market for folks simply reading a translation of a movie and never watching it).\nIt isn't clear when the site is coming back (or if it is). While other members of separate subtitling sites are advising WikiSubtitles to simply ignore the threats, Smalley is taking it seriously until the legal battle is resolved."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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