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A shame. Lawsuit filed was unlikely to have been done with the interests of the disabled in mind - but it's correct that "public" (government) institutions must abide by the ADA and implement accessibility standards.

It's an incredible shame that this affects the sharing of free knowledge.

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I somewhat understand the intention, but this feels like a ham-fisted 'solution.' Deprive majority of people access because it doesn't suit everyone? Being partially physically disabled, I absolutely sympathize with the need to push for more adherence to accessibility standards. But why not work with the institution to hammer out a timeline to meet certain standards and while allowing for people to still access the information?

>But why not work with the institution to hammer out a timeline to meet certain standards and while allowing for people to still access the information?

I suspect very little of this actually has to do with helping the disabled, if that was the goal then your solution would be the logical conclusion.

Would it be legal to torrent it? I ask because I've recently begun seeding torrents from academictorrents.com and think it would be a fine addition.

Most (possibly all) of these are Creative Commons licensed, so seed away[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5xqnc6/uc_berk...

Darn. I was kind of hoping to see separate torrents for each lesson.

You can selectively download individual files though

There are many torrents of UC Berkeley courses here! http://academictorrents.com/collection/video-lectures There is an RSS feed to mirror the entire collection.

Couldn't archive.org backup all this content before it is taken down?

The university would be obligated to request they take it down as well.

Why is that? archive.org isn't a public education institution.

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