Comment 3 for bug 643177

Hello,

That's a known issue for versions older than 2.0.9.13. What is happening is the opensubtitles.org servers are cluttered and cant handle all the traffic coming from some apps like subdownloader. Therefor you are experiencing a server timeout.

We made a quick fix and released 2.0.9.13. Unfortunately we don't have an OSX version yet. We rely on our supporters to build one...

Could you try to use the newest version on command line (since GUI wont work easily) ?