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It's not a list of links to piracy websites and torrents. If the destination is legal, then there's nothing to worry about. Those other sites that got in troub
by ronsor 2y ago
It's not a list of links to piracy websites and torrents. If the destination is legal, then there's nothing to worry about.
Those other sites that got in trouble are links to all pirated content, for the purpose of pirating content.
And we still haven't decided this isn't fair use (it's non-commercial and used only for research, so it can't really be said it harms the copyright holders' interests), and fair use is by definition not a violation of copyright.
- codetrotter 2y agoFrom the GitHub repo of the “dataset”: > [May 16, 2024 Update] Due to the recently added anti-bot measures by the data holders, our downloading pipeline is no longer working. The video links are still accessible through a browser but not via our python crawler. We are working on a workaround and will make an update once we find one. At this time, we are still providing the parquet files to researchers, but researchers will need to find a way obtain the video data. Thank you for your understanding. Ah, so on top of making a “dataset” of a category of specific works, they are also making people hammer the servers of other parties who never agreed to pay the bandwidth for a bunch of “researchers” wanting to download all of these files. Classy.