[LINK] ANU Lecture Recordings

[Adrian Chadd]

Its less about the technology and more about trying to restrict what
people do with it.

The ilectures/lectopia system here has/had provisions to allow or
disallow the students from transferring the lecture onto "other media".
I believe it was an attempt at satisfying the presenters' copyright
requests. This sounds eerily similar to what you're describing.

Of course, students complained. :)




Adrian

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008, Pilcher, Fred wrote:
> Thank you all very much for your help, on and off-LINK. You rock!
> 
> I've had some good advice which I hope will allow daughter to get the
> files.
> 
> Long story short, there is provision for the files to be made available
> as downloadable MP3s, but the lecturer has to specifically request that
> the functionality be turned on. That seems completely arse-about to me.
> 
> I'll see if I can get daughter to request the lecturer to make the
> request, though she's still rather in awe and may not feel comfortable.
> 
> I recommend to the good folks at the ANU that that be the default rather
> than optional, with proprietary streaming audio as an option if anyone
> wants it. (Yes, I know MP3 is proprietary too.)
> 
> The other recommendation I make is that they use HTML for things that
> HTML can do and limit Java to that which is both necessary and not
> doable any other way.
> 
> Again, serious thanks to everyone who replied. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fred 
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