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20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io)
An anonymous reader shares an article: Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act. We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY. Is this legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows attributed, non-commercial redistribution. The price for this content has been set to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to UC Berkeley. Additionally, we believe that this content is legal under the First Amendment.
Only in your imagination. What was allegedly illegal was UC failing to make the content accessible under the terms of the ADA. Nowhere was the content of the videos themselves ever declared illegal.
Your claim is as dumb as trying to say someone declared doctor's offices illegal because one place got sued for allegedly failing to meet ADA requirements.
Hopefully you'll get handicapped some day so you can maybe gain some empathy and realize that being a "handicapped snowflake" is not some sort of priviledged life.