OT: FBI Warning in Spanish

jbrawn wrote on 1/18/2005, 5:09 PM
I'm doing my first Spanish Language project - and I don't speak or read Spanish. I've been googling for the last hour trying to find the text of the "FBI Warning" in Spanish.

Does anyone know where I might find it?

Here is the English text: "FBI WARNING Federal law
provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the
unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of
copyrighted motion pictures, video tapes or video discs.
Criminal copyright infringement is investigated by the FBI
and may constitute a felony of up to five years in prison
and/or a $250,000 fine."

Thanks!

John.

Comments

Orcatek wrote on 1/18/2005, 5:18 PM
I put it in babel fish and got this. From my spanish knowledge it looks pretty good.

FBI QUE ADVIERTE ley federal proporciona las penas civiles y criminales severas para la reproducción desautorizada, distribución o exposición de las películas copyrighted, las cintas video o los discos video. La infracción de copyright criminal es investigada por el FBI y puede constituir un crimen de hasta cinco años en la prisión y/o una multa $250.000.
busterkeaton wrote on 1/18/2005, 5:20 PM
John,

This is an automatic translation from Google's language tools.

"FBI QUE ADVIERTE ley federal proporciona civil severo y las penas criminales para la reproducción, la distribución o la exposición desautorizada de copyrighted películas, las cintas video o los discos video. La infracción de copyright criminal es investigada por el FBI y puede constituir un crimen de hasta cinco años en la prisión y/o una multa $250.000."

Can anyone give this a proof read?
At first, I thought the y/o might be a typo, but that's and/or in Spanish.
nickle wrote on 1/18/2005, 5:21 PM
And this is how the Spanish to English of your Babbelfish comes out.

FBI THAT NOTIFIES federal law provides the civil griefs and severe criminals for the reproduction deprived of authority, distribution or exposition of the movies copyrighted, the tapes video or the disks video. The infraction of copyright criminal is investigated for the FBI and can constitute a crime of to five years in the prison and/or a fine $250.000.

http://www.freetranslation.com/
DVDeviations wrote on 1/18/2005, 6:01 PM
I speak reasonably fluent Spanish.

I would say that both translations listed in this post are close, but need to be 'proofread' by a native Spanish speaker. For example, I think the beginning should be "FBI advierte que la ley federal...... and at the end, I think should end with "una multa de $250.00."

jbrawn wrote on 1/18/2005, 9:09 PM
Thank you all for your help! I don't have a "definitive" version yet, but I have something my client is happy with. -- I guess legalese and faulty translations are sometimes hard to tell apart.

Best Regards and Thanks,

John.
Red96TA wrote on 1/18/2005, 11:05 PM
The problem with net based translations is that they are a word for word translation. Babelfish and the others don't take into account proper sentence structure or verb usage. For example, a net based translation of 'white house' would be 'blanca casa' instead of the proper sentence structure of 'casa blanca'
ScottW wrote on 1/19/2005, 5:47 AM
According to SYSTRAN (the maker of Babelfish) it's not simply word for word - the sentence structure is also looked at. I just tried your test with white house via: "The president lives in the white house." and the result was "casa blanca" for "white house"
FuTz wrote on 1/19/2005, 6:07 AM
... that wouldn't be a problem with case sensitive option...
cacher wrote on 1/19/2005, 7:15 AM
Well, spanish is my language, so here's my translation:
"ADVERTENCIA DEL FBI La ley federal prevé severas penas civiles y criminales por la reproducción, distribución o exhibición no autorizada de peliculas, videocintas o videodiscos con copyright. La violación criminal del copyright es investigada por el FBI y puede constituir una felonía de hasta cinco años en prisión o una multa de $250,000."
If you want I can look into some of my DVDs (region 4). I'm pretty sure some of them have the FBI warning in spanish (the "official" translation).