[sudo-discuss] [Mesh] Help archive free UC Berkeley lectures!

[Mitar]

Hi!

(Some) archiving is being coordinated over this wiki:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=UC_Berkeley_Course_Captures

You have also scripts you can use to download things.

Feel free to contribute to the effort.


Mitar

> The blog post doesn't make it very clear, but they were ordered by a judge
> to either subtitle everything they put online or remove the courses. It
> sounds like they do not have the money to subtitle everything, so they have
> to remove it.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Dante Cassius <exaltedunmelody at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Some of the best ones are only available on iTunes. Is there a way to
>> automate downloading these as well? Worst case scenario we can do it
>> manually while there's still time. I've personally benefited from many of
>> these and would hate to see them go.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:
>>>> They are all going away March 15th:
>>>>
>>>> http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
>>>>
>>>> Here is their post about it:
>>>>
>>>> http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/03/01/course-capture/
>>>
>>> What a terrible decision! Taking thousands of videos off their youtube
>>> channel... because of accessibility?? That is complete nonsense.
>>>
>>> I was so hopeful when schools started to put out opencourseware
>>> videos. I learned so much watching them over the years. Now I am
>>> feeling more pessimistic than ever. If UC not only gives up on open
>>> courses, but go out of their way to delete them from the internet,
>>> this will discourage every other school from bothering.
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