UC Berkeley nuked 20,000 Creative Commons lectures, but they're not going away

Team LBRY isn’t entirely doing nothing, they mirrored the files in question on their blockchain-bittorrent-thing; but they appear to consider the specific case to be of minimal interest (on the world wide intertubes, with ‘hyperlinks’ you can easily point to more information; “Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university” is vague and unhelpful even by print news standards).

If you want to give them points for sincerity, phrases like “the first truly free and censorship-resistant way to exchange content” suggest that they view dis-intermediating the state and rendering the legal action moot in practice as all the solution that is required.

If you’d prefer to chalk it up to cynicism; it’s hard to think of a better publicity test case: a bunch of nicely licenced material of obvious value(so no ugly copyright entanglements, accusations of frivolity and/or kiddie porn); being taken down for reasons that even ADA enthusiasts can debate the merits of, and anyone who likes talking about ‘political correctness’ is certainly against, so no need for the obscure and nearly unsupported protocol to compare unfavorably to an existing boring-but-effective HTTP mirror, because there soon won’t be one.

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