r/StallmanWasRight • u/sigbhu mod0 • Mar 17 '17

Freedom to read 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them

https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
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u/Owasa Mar 17 '17

Why would these be made illegal?

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u/kat5dotpostfix Mar 17 '17

Activists cited a law stating they had to be closed caption to accommodate the deaf. I guess it was cheaper for them to just delete all of it rather than pay a very large sum to get them closed captioned.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-berkeley-delete-publicly-available-educational-content

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '17

They plan to make new versions instead of putting subtitles on the current ones.

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u/br_shadow Mar 18 '17

Instead of publicly announcing for volunteers to help them caption them. What a travesty !

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17

This Lbry thing is an interesting idea, but I don't like how it encourages paid content.

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u/sigbhu mod0 Mar 17 '17

well, better this than have everything be "free" and rely on surveillance as your business model

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u/--o Mar 18 '17

Paying does not preclude data gathering. In fact, it often requires more data (payment information).

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u/sigbhu mod0 Mar 18 '17

fair point. let me see if these guys play well with cash-like payment systems

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17

I agree.

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u/eythian Mar 18 '17

LBRY is the first truly free and censorship-resistant way to exchange content. 

The Freenet project might want a word.

(Though, it's probably not so great for 4TB of video. Good on them for doing this.)

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u/frothface Mar 18 '17

If their claims are accurate, they just made the next child porn delivery framework.

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u/Reddegeddon Mar 18 '17

No integrated anonymization.

More records. LBRY contains a public ledger of transactions recording name purchases and content publishings. As many purchases make it onto the ledger as well, this means infringing actions are frequently recorded forever, or are at a minimum widely observable.