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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by harperlee on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:24PM (#9040322)
To play devil's advocate, if you fund the captioning, fewer people will do it for free. But yes, the current option is distasteful.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by chc on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:45PM (#9041598)
> To play devil's advocate, if you fund the captioning, fewer people will do it for free.

Not necessarily. They still aren't obligated to close-caption any materials for free — they just have to not provide any materials.

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