Roblox really is the infamous orphan crushing machine huh?

The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only. Within the sample it retrieved, it took adult projects at the same rate as everything else. Some examples include models of Eve from Stellar Blade, Mei from Overwatch, and a Horse cock dildo.

Roblox not beating the pedophile platform allegations

How to read this:

The company Roblox decided to copy the entire database of a set of 3, mostly adult nsfw 3d model hosting websites.

You know, Roblox, that game all the kids play.

Yeah basically if you've ever seen 3D animated porn that wasn't made by AI, and involved a reasonably well known video game character?

Yeah the ... video maker nearly certainly got the model from either SFMLab or SmutBase.

The funnier part is this:

A huge majority of these NSFW models are actually variations of models made by ... companies, that sell their models and character customization software, and have liscenses that generally permit use in something like a video clip, but almost never in an actual commercial video game, not without a subscription and agreement to liscense terms.

So basically DAZ and Realusion and such now very likely have a lawsuit against Roblox they could choose to pursue... unless Roblox wants to maybe very rapidly pay the liscensing fees, knock out a contract agreement real quick.

I hope all these companies that are flaunting rules to steal content to train their models get crushed by lawsuits after we kick the pedo crooks out of office and get a real government working again, so long as the new government isn’t filled with people that will look the other way if they get a boatload of money from lobbyists

The crawler did not respect our robots.txt

But was still allowed to proceed. That's like... not using the streets in a public park.

Never heard of the site but it looks cool

The opinion section is pretty interesting as I often seen people arguing over copyright and AI:

So we aren't asking for stricter copyright laws, or stronger protection for copyright holders. That will only benefit the major entertainment companies like Disney and Adobe who have already stacked the deck in their favor, and are happily making deals with Big-Tech and crushing small creators in the process. We're pointing out that the copyright we have isn't applied equally, and is in practice a two tier system. Individuals face ruinous damages for minor infractions. The largest companies in the world face a cost to be negotiated after the fact, if anyone can afford to sue them. A law that only works downwards gives nobody a reason to respect it, and it can't last in this form.

I had to confirm the existence of smuttbase and SFW for scientific purposes.