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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by sbarre on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:00PM (#13887971)
No, by passing laws that require institutions to provide their content in an accessible manner.

The law didn't force UCB to take the videos down, they chose to take them down rather than comply with the law.

Not the same thing..

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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by Sir_Substance on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:08PM (#13888065)
>The law didn't force UCB to take the videos down

It totally did, it's an unreasonable cost, and thus a fake choice.

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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by darawk on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:04PM (#13888015)
That doesn't change the fact that the outcome here is illogical. If you want to make things accessible, you need to penalize the institutions that don't make things accessible. Instead, we gave them the option to take it down. So the general public got penalized and UC Berkeley's incentives didn't change at all. Now they just won't make their lectures public.
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Re:20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocab... by Myrmornis on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:45PM (#13888479)
And indeed they already stopped making them public, in 2015. This latest thing is them being forced to remove public access to their historical collection.
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