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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by hga on Thursday February 12, 2015 @02:44PM (#9040913)
Based on the breath of the demands per http://nad.org/news/2015/2/nad-sues-harvard-and-mit-discrimi... it sounds like just about anything that's vaguely formal, way beyond instructional video and audio. And since they highlight quality problems, albeit bad ones but of mostly silly/very limited utility content....

Nothing good will come of this.

Disclaimer, I'm MIT Class of '83, donate to OCW, and am beyond annoyed.

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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by pstrateman on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:28PM (#9041504)
It appears that they're at least partially misunderstanding where the captains on youtube videos come from.... they're entirely automated voice recognition.
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Re:Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Co... by hga on Thursday February 12, 2015 @04:44PM (#9041590)
Aaah. But if those are official university Youtube "channels" or whatever they're called as they appear to be, does that matter?

Doesn't matter if "MIT goes dark" if the servers are Google's or MIT's.

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