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philistine on July 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Playstation Store removes Studiocanal movies, no r...

Subtitles have copyright. Therefore, subtitles need to be licensed. Licensing is a shitshow, ergo Netflix does not have a license for EN subtitles in Japan, and does not care enough about its experience to reproduce English subtitles.

kmeisthax on July 7, 2022 [–]

In many cases the licensees would actually prefer to not have foreign language options available at all, because it naturally geoblocks the content.

marak830 on July 8, 2022 | [–]

That's fine with them. I'll continue to pirate it.

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