Some people seems to think that blocking a site sets a bad precedent. It’s too late for that, France routinely block illegal download sites. That’s the reason openDNS stopped operating in france.

It’s not VLC role to give a job to subtitle writers. Their role is to let you play any piece of media. AI subs are supposed to fill the gap when there are no quality subs available or no subs at all. As a feature it makes complete sense for a media player. No company will stop hiring sub writers because of this feature in VLC. And in the really rare cases it would happen I guess thiese companies already don’t care about providing quality subs.