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- There Oughta Be a Law! – Faligi Editore Finds a Whole New Way to Cheat Translators
- The ProZ Perversion, Or: How ProZ, TranslatorsCafé, GoTranslators, TranslationDirectory and their Ilk Undermine Free Enterprise, Obstruct Living Wages for Translators, and Sabotage the Profession (and Why They’re Getting Away With It)
- And Translators Are Still Asking: How Low Can ProZ Go?
- The Trust Traduzioni/ProZ.com/Il Ministero di Turismo/the Italian Ministry of Tourism scandal (February 2010)
- Are You a Professional Translator? If So, Do NOT Lower your Translation Rates! — Marcela Jenney
- Cuando la piratería intelectual la practican los poderosos - Ferran Esteve
- Denise Bottman & the Struggle Against Published Plagiarism
- Finnish Translators Take a Stand!
- Giuseppe Manuel Brescia responds to “The Translation Guy” | in English | in Italiano – 22 July 2010
- Globalization Gone Awry: The Rice for Intellect Mindset | Traduciendo por dos platitos de arroz – Aurora Humarán
- Handling clients who ask for lower rates – Jill R. Sommer
- Just what do you take me for? – Jody Byrne
- Life beyond Mordor – Kevin Lossner
- Not enough to feed the monkey and bad manners to boot: A Canadian translator lets loose!
- UK Interpreters Boycotting Applied Language Solutions Agency – pisspoor rates, mishandling of personal data, and use of unqualified interpreters
A couple of Facebook groups worth checking out: Stop Translation Rates Posted by Outsourcers and Translators for Ethical Business Practices
Hey, Softitler, the largest subtitling company in the world, is reducing their rates by something between 40% to 85%. That’s right, it’s no typo. check the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=16018&post=87496&uid=3091211819#!/topic.php?uid=3091211819&topic=16018
Do take a look at the well funded (3.6 mil ) statistical machine translation project for subtitling in San Sebastián. Read and weep:search “projects SUMAT Europa – Information Society”. It looks like one gigantic hoax & will most likely make it impossible for subtitlers to support themselves at a decent level. Where did this originate & who is responsible? Translation agencies in London seem to be involved, as are universities in Spain, Slovenia and Greece. Translators will be given a machine translation of films, documentaries etc. that they then are supposed to “correct” at a lower rate (25 %) than the already shamefully low wages they are getting today.
Do write to the San Sebastián mail address as I have & give them your honest opinion of this dishonest and useless project.