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:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks

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Because snowflakes want everything handed to them. There is about a %0.001 chance that these students offered to add captions and UC Berkeley refused to give them the raw video.