The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by distances on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:50PM (#16361448)

English CC is offered in English speaking countries probably for legal reasons. They are not available elsewhere in the world. In Germany you get only German subtitles.

For whatever reason this is not the case for series in Netflix, which most of the time contain also in English subtitles. Wouldn't have helped the original commenter's case of course.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by taternuts on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:03PM (#16361545)

English CC for English speaking countries is actually for deaf people. There's some new rule/law that is actually making websites include English CC's in order to be compliant, though I'm not sure what the penalty is for ignoring that (probably fines).

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by thesumofall on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:39PM (#16361863)

That’s not correct. All recent shows I watched on Netflix in Germany (on a German account) had English CC subtitles in addition to typically a range of others. This includes Originals and external content such as Star Trek TNG

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by distances on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:27PM (#16362373)

Yes as I mentioned most series have English subtitles, while movies do not. I don't have a clue what's behind this difference.

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