It turns out that overseas official anime distributor diverted illegally pirated fan creation subtitles as they are

About two months agoBitTorrentIt is a distribution company officially licensed to control illegal subtitled animation that is on the market "Funimation"But,I complained 1337 people who shared the 481 story of one piece with copyright infringementHowever, it became obvious that Funimation itself diverted subtitles of pirated animation which is illegally circulated.

Details are as below.
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Funimation demanded that the complaint filed damages and discard all files downloaded using BitTorrent. It is out at the stage of redistributing it by attaching subtitles translated without permission to animation which was originally televised in Japan. However, the problem that Funimation himself who is supposedly licensed for some reason has diverted pirated subtitles has emerged.

First of all, I pointed out this problemThe Anime News Network (ANN) product forum. The following scenes will be the point of problems pointed out.

This is what Funimation uses.


And this is an illegal subtitle. Even if you look at it completely the same thing.


It turned out this shot of this recording. It is a flow that it understood from the monitor shown in this.




About this on ANN CEO, familiar with the license of animation "Tempest"Funimation is a formal license earner if he participates in the discussion and follows the legal interpretation, so Funimation has the right to use with regard to the subtitle file, but the permission of the font itself used for subtitling is Funimation I do not know if I am getting it or not.

However, the problem is not a legal part, rather Funimation has been criticized as having problems with hypocrisy acts that they use the subtitle file while cracking closed captioned animations on BitTorrent It seems.