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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by jdreaver on Thursday February 12, 2015 @01:30PM (#9040379)
Alright, then who will pay for it, either in time or money? You are free to go caption videos all you want, but why should people be forced to caption videos they make in their spare time?
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by jamesbrownuhh on Thursday February 12, 2015 @05:07PM (#9041688)
No-one is saying that anyone should be forced to do anything.

Personally, I caption the hobby videos that I put on YouTube, because doing so brings in far more views, both domestically and from around the world.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by wyager on Thursday February 12, 2015 @08:56PM (#9042470)
>No-one is saying that anyone should be forced to do anything.

This lawsuit is literally about forcing the universities to pay to caption the educational materials they release for free.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by jamesbrownuhh on Friday February 13, 2015 @05:20AM (#9043680)
The message I commented to was about the idea that suddenly "people" would be forced to caption videos that they had made in their spare time.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by loco5niner on Friday February 13, 2015 @02:20PM (#9046551)
> No-one is saying that anyone should be forced to do anything.

That's actually exactly what they are saying...

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