OK, not really... But U.C. Berkeley is now offering hundreds of course lectures on iTunes for free, as part of Apple's iTunes U program. This is in addition to Stanford University which began offering a similar service on iTunes a few months ago. While I can't praise Stanford and Berkeley enough for making such a wealth of material available to the public for free there is an ethical issue here. As Jon Udell wrote back in February, it's wonderful that universities and Apple are doing this but it has the effect of making the material less publicly available than if a link to MP3s had been placed on the universities' websites. That's a valid point I think, and a concern we should keep in mind. However, in the short run I think you've got to say that this is fantastic. 

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