Re: LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-17 Thread James A. Donald

On 2017-03-17 13:22, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:

This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.


I am pretty sure that this is exactly what those who drafted the ADA had 
in mind, because when they shut down capitalists and throw people out of 
work, they jump for joy - it is just that some people are kind of 
shocked when progressives do to progressives what progressives do to 
everyone else.





Re: LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 03:44:14AM +, jim bell wrote:
> From: Shawn K. Quinn 
> On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> >> https://lbry.io/news/2-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
> >> Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000
> >> college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the
> >> videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another
> >> university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

> >This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
> >not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.
>
> In a sense, true.  Except that I don't think ANYONE could have
> anticipated this result, when the ADA was enacted.  This is the kind
> of insane PC nonsense that we all should resist.

Jim please! "All the (((politicians))) are just misunderstood, well
meaning, good intention folk, trying their best to create a better
world.  Daffodils and rainbows -will- save the world."

Most politicians never even read the acts they vote on, except to ensure
their pet pork barrel is included in clear and unambiguous terms, and
besides "more legislation is always better", of course.


Re: LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:22:38PM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> > https://lbry.io/news/2-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
> > Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000
> > college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the
> > videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another
> > university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
> 
> Overall, I think the thought behind the ADA was well-intentioned.
> 
> What happened is that Berkeley was sued under the ADA because some of
> the videos weren't captioned. Worse, this was legacy content left online
> after Berkeley decided not to add new content.
> 
> This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
> not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.

Absolute, fscking hogwash!

Underpaid or compromised (((lawyers))) failed to state the bloody
obvious - you cannot compel performance. That's an age old common law
legal principal enshrined in all 'common law' and ex-English colonial
jurisdictions such as the USA!

For a few disabled folk to bring a University's entire historical video
library to censure, for legal grounds, means that the fundamental legal
grounds of sanity were not put forth, and or were otherwise ignored by
the courts and or the UCB lawyers.

This is the kind of consequence that (((disabled attention seekers)))
are only too happy to receive.

Some ridiculous corner case in some ridiculous cotton wool snowflake
statutory act was "enforced" by force of courts or UCB "we give up".

"Less fortunate" "underprivileged" "disabled" or "otherwise stupid"
folks are granted statutory right to be bullies with force of law,
against most of our community, all in the name of political correctness
and "muh disabled ass i gonna be underprivileged if ya don stop da world
for me now!"

Cite the original complaint, response and final rulings documents if you
want to insinuate this as "unintended consequences", otherwise, bullshit!


> > We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for 
> > free via LBRY. Is this legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of 
> > the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons license that 
> > allows attributed, non-commercial redistribution. The price for this 
> > content has been set to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to 
> > UC Berkeley. Additionally, we believe that this content is legal 
> > under the First Amendment.
> 
> I support the preservation effort. BTW, someone needs to tell LBRY they
> aren't on Wheel of Fortune and vowels don't cost $250 apiece...

-- 
Certified deplorable shitlord anti-snowflake.
Ethnic nationalism FTW!
"You can't invoke an ancient frog god Kek to meme a presidential win.
 ... That's where you're wrong, kiddo!"


Re: LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-16 Thread grarpamp
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:44 PM, jim bell  wrote:
> the
> Federal Government never actually had the Constitutional authority to do the
> large majority of things it currently does.  The extreme abuse of the
> "Commerce Clause" and the "Necessary and Proper Clause" led to most of the
> expansion of the Federal government between, say, 1900 and today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5zrn80/uk_banks_are_now_closing_customer_accounts_that/df1b8l2/
>From the Book:
The Real Story of the Money-Control Over America Pg 11


Re: LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-16 Thread jim bell
From: Shawn K. Quinn 


On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>> https://lbry.io/news/2-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
>> Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000
>> college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the
>> videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another
>> university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

>Overall, I think the thought behind the ADA was well-intentioned.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.   One problem is that the 
Federal Government never actually had the Constitutional authority to do the 
large majority of things it currently does.  The extreme abuse of the "Commerce 
Clause" and the "Necessary and Proper Clause" led to most of the expansion of 
the Federal government between, say, 1900 and today.

>What happened is that Berkeley was sued under the ADA because some of
the videos weren't captioned.
99%+ of things on YouTube aren't captioned.  See where this is going?
> Worse,
Why "worse"?
> this was legacy content left online
after Berkeley decided not to add new content.
I find it hard to understand why that would make a difference, let alone 
"worse".

>This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.
In a sense, true.  Except that I don't think ANYONE could have anticipated this 
result, when the ADA was enacted.  This is the kind of insane PC nonsense that 
we all should resist.


> We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for 
> free via LBRY. Is this legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of 
> the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons license that 
> allows attributed, non-commercial redistribution. The price for this 
> content has been set to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to 
> UC Berkeley. Additionally, we believe that this content is legal 
> under the First Amendment.

>I support the preservation effort. BTW, someone needs to tell LBRY they
aren't on Wheel of Fortune and vowels don't cost $250 apiece...
I do too.  But I also suggest coming down hard on Gallaudet University and its 
supporters for forcing a crazy non-solution to a problem not of UCB's making.
           Jim Bell   

Re: LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-16 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://lbry.io/news/2-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
> Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000
> college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the
> videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another
> university under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Overall, I think the thought behind the ADA was well-intentioned.

What happened is that Berkeley was sued under the ADA because some of
the videos weren't captioned. Worse, this was legacy content left online
after Berkeley decided not to add new content.

This, to me, is a clear case of unintended consequences, and probably
not what those who drafted the ADA had in mind.

> We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for 
> free via LBRY. Is this legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of 
> the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons license that 
> allows attributed, non-commercial redistribution. The price for this 
> content has been set to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to 
> UC Berkeley. Additionally, we believe that this content is legal 
> under the First Amendment.

I support the preservation effort. BTW, someone needs to tell LBRY they
aren't on Wheel of Fortune and vowels don't cost $250 apiece...

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn 
http://www.rantroulette.com
http://www.skqrecordquest.com



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LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain

2017-03-16 Thread grarpamp
https://lbry.io/news/2-illegal-college-lectures-rescued
Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000
college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos
because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university
under the Americans with Disabilities Act. We copied all 20,000 and
are making them permanently available for free via LBRY. Is this
legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of the lectures are
licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows attributed,
non-commercial redistribution. The price for this content has been set
to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to UC Berkeley.
Additionally, we believe that this content is legal under the First
Amendment.