this is a question for his highness the head of tech but his email announcing the change, after school has started and syllabi made, suggests that everything is streaming
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It's a terrible idea regardless but also does the school pay for streaming services? So many streamers have IP address "no sharing" nonsense now I would imagine it's a ridiculous complication. Are faculty expected to have a campus specific account?
aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 2 0 • view
“Well it’s on internet so yeah”
aug 30, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
I lectured a class at a CUNY school in which all the films available to show in classes were stored locally on the school’s server. It was an absurd system.
aug 29, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
But using commercial streaming services is even worse.
aug 29, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
yup! bad for buffering, bad for captioning and accessibility, bad for catalog
aug 29, 2025, 6:06 pm • 3 0 • view
A huge problem as the streamers feel no obligation to maintain catalog
aug 29, 2025, 6:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Many people told him that and that only olds use discs anymore.
aug 30, 2025, 2:03 am • 0 0 • view
Put Blu-ray Disc in Blu-ray player. Press play. Short of a power cut, this is painless, near-infallible, and importantly will remain so for years to come. Meanwhile, streaming…
aug 29, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view