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no one "needs" it. its free lectures online that are posted from the goodwill of the schools, which have no real incentive to do it. all of a sudden if they have to CC them they probably would rather not post them anymore and now thousands of people will get screwed over.

There are formulas drawn, I could attempt reading lips and I could try using speech recognition software. Alternative: they pull down all the courses and no one gets anything.

> I could try using speech recognition software

I agree with your point, however speech recognition likely resulted in the mentioned "inaccurately or unintelligibly captioned" videos ;)

There's no reason to deny other people of the free lessons, other than green envy.

You can get the material anyways from the recommended course books, which are probably available in the public library at request. Or the course notes in the course's web page.

It almost always incurs a cost to provide convenience to the handicaps which is why laws have been created so that they are threated equally... For example, do you really need to be able to access this store with your wheel chair? probably not, you could use Amazon.