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So why not share all the downloaded content through a p2p torrent network, rather than to keep them in our own servers to ourselves, so that everyone else benef
by raldu 10y ago
So why not share all the downloaded content through a p2p torrent network, rather than to keep them in our own servers to ourselves, so that everyone else benefits?
- shock 10y agoThe Coursera TOS prohibit this. Specificaly, "You may download content from our Services only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain Coursera's written permission to otherwise use the content."[0] [0] - https://www.coursera.org/about/terms https://www.coursera.org/about/terms
- komali2 10y agoThat's fine, but so why don't we? If the whole purpose of downloading all these courses is so that we can continue to access them after Coursera goes full moneygrub mode, surely someone is willing to sacrifice their Coursera account for this?
- joe563323 10y agoLets think about it from ethical stand point. The kind of people who downloads and wants to learn is just a very tiny fraction of people in the entire tech population(Even most people in tech industry does not want to invest in learning). Their contribution will be significant. So what about the hard work the authors who had put in to create the course ? Don't worry their life will not be affected much(not like they will miss being billionaire). The only people who might get affected is the undeserved people who is taking advantage of intellects like the university.
- userbinator 10y agoToS and even copyright law never stopped SciHub and LibGen. An old saying I remember from my days in the ebook scene: "Those who want the knowledge will always find it."
- znpy 10y agoAs someone else pointed out, that is not allowed by the TOS. But quite frankly... now that such content is not freely available anymore, I expect that to begin circulating on the p2p networks anyway.
- r3bl 10y agoYup, in 20 days when the content becomes unavailable, people will trade them like they trade... well, pretty much anything that they can't get easily by following the law.
- krick 10y agoSpeaking of which: a few years ago there was quite awesome astronomy course, which I didn't have time to finish in real-time, and the content was deleted as soon as the course ended. I liked it wa-ay better than any other astronomy-ish stuff they had (and still have) later: it was more about actually modelling the celestial sphere and understanding the movement of the planets, than vaguely speaking about contents of the universe. Does by any chance anyone know how I can try and find it somewhere else? All I remember is that the professor had long gray hair and beard, which isn't really google-able.
- tokipin 10y agoyou're probably thinking of "Introduction to Astronomy" by Ronen Plesser. that course was awesome.
- krick 10y agoYes, thank you very much. That's exactly it!
- moha002 10y agoI took that course and I really enjoyed it. That's why, I downloaded it and uploaded it to drive when I heard that coursera is gonna delete it. Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B64NfOIwa64BVFJXQzNhTDM3NDg https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B64NfOIwa64BVFJXQzNhTDM3ND... Keep looking up :D