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Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by rapfaria »

ucb_throwaway wrote: post #30

As a former UC Berkeley student, I just want to add that besides the public lecture videos, there are also many private, unlisted course videos on YouTube from the last couple years (after it became an issue). The Archive Team has missed these videos as they're only accessible via UC Berkeley's student portal if you're a student in the class. The Archive Team and current/former students need to work together here to…

This should definitely be mentioned on /r/DataHoarder

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by BenElgar »

beefield wrote: post #41

I would be curious to read the background discussion at HN you refer to?

From a quick search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13815764

TLDR: The videos were removed because of a lawsuit relating to the lack of captions, making them inaccessible to the deaf.

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by throwaway729 »

ucb_throwaway wrote: post #30

As a former UC Berkeley student, I just want to add that besides the public lecture videos, there are also many private, unlisted course videos on YouTube from the last couple years (after it became an issue). The Archive Team has missed these videos as they're only accessible via UC Berkeley's student portal if you're a student in the class. The Archive Team and current/former students need to work together here to…

Be careful? The copyright and licensing status of those videos is probably less clear-cut than stuff that was explicitly released under a permissive license.

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by SilasX »

I deeply apologize if this is off topic, but this request highlights an issue with the original debate, where posters were tripping over each others to express indignation about Berkeley releasing these videos without disability accommodations, reiterating the same arguments for the ADA, and asserting that those same considerations apply here.

If you thought the judgment against Berkeley was justified-- that they couldn't give away these videos for free without e.g. subtitles -- are you equally against this effort? Because it accomplishes the exact same thing: the availability of some useful education videos that are unusable by (some) people with disabilities.

If you're not, how do you reconcile that? Your position seems to be something bizarre like:

A) "Yeah, Berkeley should release free, deaf-unusable videos, but gosh darnit, they better well do it through back channels, because we need to respect the disabled."

B) "It's great to release the videos, as long as someone other than Berkeley endorses and/or hosts them, because we need to respect the disabled."

I just don't see a way to reconcile them, and yet I get the impression that some posters here do hold both views (the judgment was justified, and this effort should not be halted/is good).

Edit: Here are the discussions I am referring to, courtesy of BenElgar:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13815764

Re: Ask HN: Which Berkeley Courses Should I Archive?

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Post by AlexB138 »

vpribish wrote: post #5

Anyone want to chime in with a way to simply grab them all?

As others have said, youtube-dl. I'm using the following command to get them in the best possible quality and merge them into an mkv:

  youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mkv -ci [play list url]
I'm on MacOS and was able to get it working by doing the following:

  brew install youtube-dl
  brew install ffmpeg
ffmpeg is needed for encoding.

You can get playlists here: https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley/playlists

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