Expiring Licenses

General Discussion
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But can we get the licence again?

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Thank you for posting that list. I guess I will be watching a lot of those dramas this weekend.

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What about ā€œReturn of Supermanā€? What about these tvN dramas? :sob:

  1. Reply series
  2. Another Oh Hae Young.
  3. Oh My Ghostess
  4. Letā€™s Eat 1,2
  5. Bring it on Ghost
  6. Emergency Couple
  7. My Wife is Having an Affair this week.
  8. Cheese in the trap
  9. I need romance season 1, 2, 3
  10. Bubblegum
  11. Queen Inhyunā€™s Man
  12. Hidden Identity
  13. Signal
  14. Memory
  15. Cinderella and 4 Knights
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Add love myself or you! To the listā€¦ :sob::sob:

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Yes Maā€™am, I did.

This appears to be the old drama - from either 2005 or 2006 off the top of my head.

I could naturally run and take a look at LACruiserā€™s thoughtfully laid out (now inherited by me) Sageuk Channel - a great place for reference on where things are in the continuum of history for dramas :). Heā€™s done a great job over the years and now I hope it will not fall apart with my stewardship. :slight_smile:

Okay. Donā€™t take this wrong, overlordsā€¦butā€¦I would much rather have got Jingbirok, Jeong Do Jeon, Jang Youngsil, and even Sejong the Great - if we were getting older Korean dramas. (Sejong the Great is a remarkable drama and the actors playing Taejong and Sejong reprise their roles in Jang Youngsilā€¦).

GeNie of the Lampā€¦the Element(al) of Editing

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In addition to the current pain on K drama side, letā€™s not forget the fan channel videos about to get wiped out on the C drama side. :frowning: this is about 40 percent of ALL the videos we have there.

About 700 drama channels. When the fan channels with videos goā€¦this number will diminish to around 400 channels with videosā€¦and some are pending channels which have no license and no video. 2017 - there are 97 channelsā€¦and about 15 have actual dramas active in them.

Watch your favorites, explore the ones you thought you would watch ā€œSOMEDAYā€ or when you were between projects. Download your subs. Contact your Teams.

Thisā€¦is turning into somewhat a funeral for loved onesā€¦our videosā€¦our effortsā€¦and sometimes yes, our friends when life is tough, or even to celebrate our momentsā€¦we watch our favorites.

Whether they are fan channels or licensed, it is clear the writing is on the wall, and the overlord scythe is imminent.

Take a day off from working on our projects. Watch our departing friends instead.

Crouching Dieter, Hidden Donut
soon to be only in memory, Go Princess Go!, Novoland, and many moreā€¦along with Tree with Deep Rootsā€¦The Great Dcotorā€¦!

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And the worst thing is, other language viewers are mostly affected.

Volunteers obviously can watch with English subs, and thereā€™s usually a way to find English subs, even if itā€™s not on Viki.

But most other languages? Thatā€™s the end of the line.

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Actually, the English sub out there may not be good as what volunteers work in their projects.

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Quality or not, we still get to watch somehow (remember all those people saying they just care ā€œfor the general meaningā€ of the subs and not the quality? Thereā€™s a lot of them.)

People who rely on Viki for subs in their language, though, theyā€™ll just not get to watch at all.

(Which by the way is what I think Rakuten is going for anyway.)

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Are those expiring ā€“ Iā€™m channel manager on several of them and have not received any notices!!!

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@cgwm808
I think she is only asking what the status of these dramas is?
I donā€™t think there is any information of those channel to expire.

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Itā€™s because I know that English is widely available but other language subs are not that I pm the team for each drama I know is being expired. So they can at least save their own work.

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What do you mean? Are those expiring?
Itā€™s not possible, as Bring it on Ghost was licensed only recently, and Cinderella and 4 Knights was never licenced to begin with.

I need to know because Iā€™m currently editing Oh My Ghostess and gathering a team to start translating Memory into Italian by the end of this month.

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@irmar and @cgwm808 I think she means to ask wether or not those licenses will expire too. But Iā€™m not sure as some are not on Viki to begin with.

@trangle8507 We are not Viki staff and so far they didnā€™t reply in this topic either so we donā€™t know. To contact Viki you can mail them by help@viki.com or filling in this form: https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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Mahoula is GR moderator for Queen Inhyunā€™s Man. @mahoula, in case itā€™s expiring, just a heads up.

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That drama can be found and downloaded. I just looked.
Itā€™s just that for many of those series, viki subs wonā€™t go well with other videos, and other videos donā€™t have languages other than English. I donā€™t mind terribly, as I understand English (although viki subs are better most of the time), but itā€™s a great loss for all those other people who have trouble if itā€™s not in their language.

For now, Iā€™m binge-watching ā€œFaithā€, and loving it. Very cleverly written. And I discovered itā€™s the same writer in The King Loves.

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Exactly, thatā€™s what I said, too.

For me personally, Viki or not, Iā€™ll be fine. But many viewers will have a problem watching dramas.

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Did Warrior Baek Dong Soo expire? Was in the middle of watching and now says unavailable?

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Iā€™ve been disappointed by VIKI too many times over the last few monthsā€¦popular dramas not getting licensedā€¦licenses lost for so many good dramasā€¦old dramas getting licensed that are not worth watchingā€¦thatā€™s not why I pay monthly for a ā€œVIKI PASSā€! My heartfelt ā€˜THANK YOUā€™ to all the volunteers who have contributed to the lost channelsā€¦your time and efforts made it possible for many to enjoy these dramas!!!

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Itā€™s on my personal list as licensed to Viki, but I just checked Viki and the channel says Warrior Baek Dong-soo is not available in my region (USA).