[pessimizer]

Either the videos are valuable, or they're not. They can't simultaneously not be worth the salary of one middle manager for one year and be such an important public resource that they require exceptions to the ADA.

Or rather they can to you, but for me, holding to a standard created to protect minorities is more important than that, even if in some cases it prevents majorities from not having everything they want.

[JCzynski]

They are very valuable to many people, but if the cost is borne by a group that acquires no benefit (UC Berkeley, which can use them for its own students for free regardless), then it is not worth that cost.

It is absolutely the case that these created more than a million dollars of value per year while they were up. But UC Berkeley, by design, captured none of that value.