<story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bdhess</author><text>Previous HN thread on this topic:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12519761&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=12519761&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>20,000 UC Berkeley Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them</title><url>https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bmcusick</author><text>While I understand wanting to make things available to the deaf, making them unavailable to everyone else is nuts. It&amp;#x27;s crazy that the law put UC Berkeley in the position of having to choose between bearing the expense of close-captioning all these videos, and taking them down.&lt;p&gt;How is society improved by taking them down?</text></comment>