People don't benefit from Yale from the lectures. They benefit from the brand name and alumni you get to be associated with. Which is because Yale restricts admission to people who have high probability of being influential.
So it's really just an exclusive club and not about education and knowledge building at all? Okay, you simply reenforce my point. It's a signalling mechanism for cargo cult employers who would rather simply hire from Yale than do the work of actually assessing people's capabilities. It needs to go the way of the dodo.
I don't think online lectures is the opportunity that plaintiffs in this case felt they were deprived of.
Do you think that "we simply need to publish all lectures online free of charge" is a good answer for the plaintiffs?