The University of California, Berkeley, has started to remove thousands of free video lectures and podcasts which were available to anyone\u00a0with an Internet connection.<\/p>\n
Berkeley is removing the videos due to a lawsuit<\/strong><\/a> brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n The lawsuit saw the US Justice Department order Berkeley\u00a0to make all its educational content accessible to people with disabilities.<\/p>\n Faced with a\u00a0near insurmountable task, Berkeley was forced to take down all its free content.<\/p>\n Good news is that LBRY – a decentralised digital library – has copied all 20,000 videos and podcasts and made them permanently available for free.<\/p>\n \u201cThe full catalogue is over 4TB and will be synced over the next several days,\u201d said LBRY CEO Jeremy Kauffman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Kauffman believes copying and distributing the content is \u201calmost certainly\u201d legal, thanks to the\u00a0Creative Commons licence.<\/p>\n The University of California, Berkeley, has started to remove thousands of free video lectures due to a lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":203162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[42004,42008,42006],"class_list":["post-203156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-berkeley","tag-jeremy-kauffman","tag-lbry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203160,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203156\/revisions\/203160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0How long it takes for web pages to load in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"