NPR reports on the Chinese groups using P2P to distribute subtitled versions of American TV shows: Chinese Fans Follow American TV Online – for Free: “Han says they can download untranslated versions of the American shows from the peer-to-peer file-sharing site BitTorrent as soon as 10 minutes after new episodes air in the U.S. Then they find closed-captioned scripts in English; those also turn up online shortly after the show airs. The captioned scripts are the raw material. Han says they take those scripts and turn them into creative Chinese translations.”
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