[rainingcatndogs]

And it made me download a lot of MIT OCW courses which I watched and might watch from youtube. In case there will be a situation when we cannot download videos anymore from youtube, I'm gonna host a Peertube instance and upload all of these awesome materials. NewPipe which I currently use to view youtube has good support for peertube as well, so I won't miss much except maybe the comments.

[porknubbins]

Thanks, its easy to take for granted that these videos will always be available but a few years back Berkley took down a huge amount of content to try to preempt ADA subtitles legal problems. In the case of some advanced courses self learners can lose access to unique resources.

[benrbray]

I hadn't heard about this, what a shame.

https://www.adatitleiii.com/2017/03/uc-berkley-to-remove-mor...

[magicalist]

Kind of a side point, but the video lectures are already available for download from links on the OCW site, probably with one less generation of compression than on youtube, including from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw

[bigiain]

> so I won't miss much except maybe the comments.

You won't miss anything then...

[prox]

You can possibly also share what you have with r/datahoarders