Subtitles also help those with hearing disabilities, so subtitling should be considered an essential service. I can’t tell you how many retail DVDs I bought in the past of old films that had no captioning or subtitles whatsoever. Every now and then I’ll grab a classic film torrent and the subtitles exist on SubScene that didn’t exist on the retail DVD I bought more than a decade ago.

And how do I get an invite? Is anybody here a member?

Its also a religious service that should be protected in the US by the constitution https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism

Technically, a translation is a derivative work, so the copyright owner would have to authorize the translation for it to be legal. I don’t understand why people would be debating this on TorrentFreak. I thought people on there didn’t care, they just wanted to pirate stuff.