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Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking
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A first-hand, log-backed account of a Roblox-labelled crawler scraping 145.5 GB of 3D models, which it then uses to argue that copyright is enforced unevenly.
What it adds
Original incident report from the affected site operator, with server-log forensics linking the crawler to a Roblox researcher, then framed within a broader critique of asymmetric copyright enforcement.
Claim by claim
- 8 the author's own
- 2 an AI would say
- 5 known elsewhere
- 7 common knowledge
Its strongest original claims
- Roblox did not reply to emails asking for comment.
- Scraping attempts followed office hours in CEST with a lunch pause.
- The email belongs to a researcher among the authors of Roblox's Cube 3D foundation model paper.
- TRELLIS.2's published data toolkit contains no web crawler, so this crawler was custom-written.
- The most likely explanation is the crawler gathered training or evaluation data for Roblox's 3D foundation model.
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