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No good deed goes unpunished... This just makes it that much more likely that institutions will hesitate before offering free access to materials online.
by dougabug 12y ago
No good deed goes unpunished...
This just makes it that much more likely that institutions will hesitate before offering free access to materials online.
- hga 12y agoBased on the breath of the demands per http://nad.org/news/2015/2/nad-sues-harvard-and-mit-discrimination-public-online-content http://nad.org/news/2015/2/nad-sues-harvard-and-mit-discrimi... it sounds like just about anything that's vaguely formal, way beyond instructional video and audio. And since they highlight quality problems, albeit bad ones but of mostly silly/very limited utility content.... Nothing good will come of this. Disclaimer, I'm MIT Class of '83, donate to OCW, and am beyond annoyed.
- pstrateman 12y agoIt appears that they're at least partially misunderstanding where the captains on youtube videos come from.... they're entirely automated voice recognition.
- hga 12y agoAaah. But if those are official university Youtube "channels" or whatever they're called as they appear to be, does that matter? Doesn't matter if "MIT goes dark" if the servers are Google's or MIT's.
- jasonwocky 12y ago> This just makes it that much more likely that institutions will hesitate before offering free access to materials online. No, it doesn't "just" do that.