Open3DLab says crawler claiming to be Roblox downloaded models without permission
What happened
On October 27, Open3DLab disclosed that a crawler identifying itself as belonging to Roblox downloaded 1,027 files from 712 projects across Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase without permission, totaling 145.5 GB. The site says 345 of the downloaded projects are adult content and 423 are licensed for non-commercial use only. The crawler ignored robots.txt and the terms of service ban on scraping. The site blocked the crawler and emailed it twice; no reply had arrived as of the report.
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- Hacker News front pageRoblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
Open3DLab披露，一个自称属于Roblox的爬虫从其与SFMLab、SmutBase下载了712个项目的1,027个文件，共145.5 GB。站方称其中345个项目属于成人内容、423个项目仅许可非商业使用，爬虫无视robots.txt与禁止抓取的服务条款，站方封禁后两次邮件询问均未获回复。
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