From: Shawn K. Quinn On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:

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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.   One problem is that the Federal Government never actually had the Constitutional authority to do the large majority of things it currently does.  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.  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.  Except that I don't think ANYONE could have anticipated this result, when the ADA was enacted.  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.  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

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:44:14AM +0000, jim bell wrote:

From: Shawn K. Quinn On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:

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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.

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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.  Except that I don't think ANYONE could have anticipated this result, when the ADA was enacted.  This is the kind of insane PC nonsense that we all should resist.

Jim please! "All the (((politicians))) are just misunderstood, well meaning, good intention folk, trying their best to create a better world. Daffodils and rainbows -will- save the world." Most politicians never even read the acts they vote on, except to ensure their pet pork barrel is included in clear and unambiguous terms, and besides "more legislation is always better", of course.

On 2017-03-17 13:22, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:

This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.

I am pretty sure that this is exactly what those who drafted the ADA had in mind, because when they shut down capitalists and throw people out of work, they jump for joy - it is just that some people are kind of shocked when progressives do to progressives what progressives do to everyone else.