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Are there a lot?

Like people copying slides or such?

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More like people reuploading entire courses.

>in 2015, we have received 125 DMCA notifications as well as 45 “Hey, this looks weird maybe you should look into this,” notifications

https://medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-pi...

Interesting read, I didn't know anything about that. It seems like all would be solved if they put even a tiny bit of effort into vetting uploads. What type of educational site allows most any upload to make it through? They're approach seems to be reactive as compared to other sites being proactive, another red flag.

That's pretty terrible. Seems like even some basic effort would sniff out a lot of these ...

Not sure that all courses from youtube are being stolen.

I rather think that they when they find topical content on youtube they approach the content creator to put the course on their site as well.

Udemy's quality is mostly poor, but it's usually glaringly obvious when a course is rubbish. One or two courses are actually really good.

Even worse. There are people stealing entire courses from elsewhere (even the video content) and selling them shamelessly. There were article on this a while ago, let me see if I can find them.

I don't have the source, but I remember reading on Reddit that someone had his free programming YouTube tutorials series uploaded to udemy and behind a paywall.

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