LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

[jdb10987 at yahoo.com (jim bell)]

From: Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>


On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>> https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
>> 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.

>Overall, I think the thought behind the ADA was well-intentioned.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Â  One problem is that the Federal Government never actually had the Constitutional authority to do the large majority of things it currently does. Â The extreme abuse of the "Commerce Clause" and the "Necessary and Proper Clause" led to most of the expansion of the Federal government between, say, 1900 and today.

>What happened is that Berkeley was sued under the ADA because some of
the videos weren't captioned.
99%+ of things on YouTube aren't captioned. Â See where this is going?
> Worse,
Why "worse"?
> this was legacy content left online
after Berkeley decided not to add new content.
I find it hard to understand why that would make a difference, let alone "worse".

>This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.
In a sense, true. Â Except that I don't think ANYONE could have anticipated this result, when the ADA was enacted. Â This is the kind of insane PC nonsense that we all should resist.


> 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.

>I support the preservation effort. BTW, someone needs to tell LBRY they
aren't on Wheel of Fortune and vowels don't cost $250 apiece...
I do too. Â But I also suggest coming down hard on Gallaudet University and its supporters for forcing a crazy non-solution to a problem not of UCB's making.
           Jim Bell   
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