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.

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Re:why should i care?`

[Scarred Intellect]

I'm colorblind and I'm going to sue all of the movie studios and TV stations for presenting their product in color. If I can't see the shows in full color them they should all be forced to present the shows in only black and white so we can all be equal. Screw you, you non-colorblind elitists.

Haha! Joke's on you, they've always been black and white!

Re:In a perfect world

[lgw]

These weren't Berkeley students. This wasn't any sort of required material for any course. This was a free offering for interested parties. Are you seriously claiming that making it unavailable for everyone is better then having it available for almost everyone?

Sorry, but no right includes compelling others to be your slave. If they were Berkeley students and this was course material, then the ADA would make sense - a business should provide reasonable accommodations to its customers as a cost of doing business. But that's not what this is.