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Well, I rather pay than having to install Silverlight in order to watch it.

acqq 11y ago
For those who need an explanation for the above comment. The site in question: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/#data=2%7C%7C%7C0 http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/#data=2%7C%7C%... Silverlight is needed to see the "free" videos of Feyman's lectures. That's how Gates did it. Did Silverlight ever work on iOS or Android? Doesn't look so. The site was monopolistic even as it was made if it's only 5 (edit: 6) years old. http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/...
- rpgmaker 11y ago
  I thought they killed it 3 to 4 years ago. I never know with Microsoft.
  - jdminhbg 11y ago
    They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  Helping fix https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8118 https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8118 may get you access to these.
  - acqq 11y ago
    Or, even more probably, won't help, if the DRM is also used. Then you need to reverse engineer the DRM too. DRM was the main reason for the Silverlight use. Which can even better explain why nobody is interested in making the downloader or muxer, especially after Microsoft stopped developing Silverlight in 2013(!)
sliverstorm 11y ago
Some people are just never happy...
- CamperBob2 11y ago
  Pardon me for not tripping over myself to thank Gates for liberating the Feynman Lectures by locking them up in an encumbered proprietary format for his company's own benefit. We can say what we want about copyright law, but at least copyright is based on the idea that the protected material will eventually become accessible in the public domain. DRM offers us no such bargain.
  - ekianjo 11y ago
    I don't know why you are being downvoted. Releasing something for free should not be an excuse to use DRM and to push one's platform. Such videos could have been made available through other means.
    - bhrgunatha 11y ago
      Especially 6 years after the fact plus with Silverlight being deprecated and for Linux Moonlight is abandoned.
    - CamperBob2 11y ago
      On HN, you tend to get modded down for one of two reasons: 1) you're wrong about something; or 2) you're right about something. Can't take it too personally either way.
  - sliverstorm 11y ago
    You don't have to thank him, it just doesn't make sense to complain. As far as I understand, you have more access to those lectures than you did before, even if you have to deal with Silverlight.

acqq 11y ago

For those who need an explanation for the above comment. The site in question: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/#data=2%7C%7C%7C0 http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/#data=2%7C%7C%... Silverlight is needed to see the "free" videos of Feyman's lectures. That's how Gates did it. Did Silverlight ever work on iOS or Android? Doesn't look so. The site was monopolistic even as it was made if it's only 5 (edit: 6) years old. http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/...

rpgmaker 11y ago
I thought they killed it 3 to 4 years ago. I never know with Microsoft.
- jdminhbg 11y ago
  They did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
voltagex_ 11y ago
Helping fix https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8118 https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8118 may get you access to these.
- acqq 11y ago
  Or, even more probably, won't help, if the DRM is also used. Then you need to reverse engineer the DRM too. DRM was the main reason for the Silverlight use. Which can even better explain why nobody is interested in making the downloader or muxer, especially after Microsoft stopped developing Silverlight in 2013(!)

sliverstorm 11y ago

Some people are just never happy...

CamperBob2 11y ago
Pardon me for not tripping over myself to thank Gates for liberating the Feynman Lectures by locking them up in an encumbered proprietary format for his company's own benefit. We can say what we want about copyright law, but at least copyright is based on the idea that the protected material will eventually become accessible in the public domain. DRM offers us no such bargain.
- ekianjo 11y ago
  I don't know why you are being downvoted. Releasing something for free should not be an excuse to use DRM and to push one's platform. Such videos could have been made available through other means.
  - bhrgunatha 11y ago
    Especially 6 years after the fact plus with Silverlight being deprecated and for Linux Moonlight is abandoned.
  - CamperBob2 11y ago
    On HN, you tend to get modded down for one of two reasons: 1) you're wrong about something; or 2) you're right about something. Can't take it too personally either way.
- sliverstorm 11y ago
  You don't have to thank him, it just doesn't make sense to complain. As far as I understand, you have more access to those lectures than you did before, even if you have to deal with Silverlight.