The idol dancing example from is clearly from "Oshi no Ko", and the Nyarlahotep example is clearly from "Haiyore! Nyaruko-san". They seemed to have adopted an "ask for forgiveness" instead of "ask for permission" approach with respect to copyrights, and I don't think that's the right way to go.
> It's a list of links, and they're not rehosting the media, so it's as legal as any search engine or other collection of links.
That's probably still illegal. The implied purpose is copyright violation and piracy. Judges aren't computers - they're capable of discerning when someone is trying to skirt the law by saying "here's something you could use to do something illegal...wink wink nudge nudge".
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.
> [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.
What kind of question is this? Why would it and why is it obvious? Could you state your reasons and/or qualifications for this statement? Rather than having random people speculate as to what you mean? This question seems designed to fish for low quality replies.
