Karpathy claims that the reason for the take down is due to 6 reasons given to them: "Closed captions, forms for students/invited speakers, potential copyright material, "quality/brand", ..."
He doesn't give the last two reasons.
Universities have been sued in the past for the lack of closed captions for lectures: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-...
It would be great if the material was closed captioned, but it seems wrong to deprive everyone else of it for that reason.
The course in question is "CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition" - http://cs231n.stanford.edu/.
Karpathy claims that the reason for the take down is due to 6 reasons given to them: "Closed captions, forms for students/invited speakers, potential copyright material, "quality/brand", ..."
He doesn't give the last two reasons.
Universities have been sued in the past for the lack of closed captions for lectures: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-...
It would be great if the material was closed captioned, but it seems wrong to deprive everyone else of it for that reason.