Got it, thanks!

Thanks! It clarifies a fair bit. Where does that leave us regarding the new authentication mechanism? Is it mandatory only for those interacting with the API over http://www.opensubtitles.com/api/ ?

I recently registered an account/user agent for programmatically downloading subtitles for movies/TV shows (hobby project, just for me basically). I was using the API over at https://rest.opensubtitles.org/search . Both the email and the post here say that the login request needs opensubtitles.org u...