diff --git a/example/gluon/word_language_model/get_ptb_data.sh b/example/gluon/word_language_model/get_ptb_data.sh
index d2641cb32b81..0a0c7051b010 100755
--- a/example/gluon/word_language_model/get_ptb_data.sh
+++ b/example/gluon/word_language_model/get_ptb_data.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+echo ""
+echo "NOTE: Please review the licensing of the datasets in this script before proceeding"
+echo "See https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc99t42 for the licensing"
+echo "Once that is done, please uncomment the wget commands in this script"
+echo ""
 
 RNN_DIR=$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)
 DATA_DIR="${RNN_DIR}/data/"
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ if [[ ! -d "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
   mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
 fi
 
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
diff --git a/example/model-parallel-lstm/get_ptb_data.sh b/example/model-parallel-lstm/get_ptb_data.sh
index d2641cb32b81..0a0c7051b010 100755
--- a/example/model-parallel-lstm/get_ptb_data.sh
+++ b/example/model-parallel-lstm/get_ptb_data.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+echo ""
+echo "NOTE: Please review the licensing of the datasets in this script before proceeding"
+echo "See https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc99t42 for the licensing"
+echo "Once that is done, please uncomment the wget commands in this script"
+echo ""
 
 RNN_DIR=$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)
 DATA_DIR="${RNN_DIR}/data/"
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ if [[ ! -d "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
   mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
 fi
 
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
diff --git a/example/rnn-time-major/get_ptb_data.sh b/example/rnn-time-major/get_ptb_data.sh
index d2641cb32b81..0a0c7051b010 100755
--- a/example/rnn-time-major/get_ptb_data.sh
+++ b/example/rnn-time-major/get_ptb_data.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+echo ""
+echo "NOTE: Please review the licensing of the datasets in this script before proceeding"
+echo "See https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc99t42 for the licensing"
+echo "Once that is done, please uncomment the wget commands in this script"
+echo ""
 
 RNN_DIR=$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)
 DATA_DIR="${RNN_DIR}/data/"
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ if [[ ! -d "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
   mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
 fi
 
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
diff --git a/example/rnn/get_ptb_data.sh b/example/rnn/get_ptb_data.sh
index d2641cb32b81..0a0c7051b010 100755
--- a/example/rnn/get_ptb_data.sh
+++ b/example/rnn/get_ptb_data.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+echo ""
+echo "NOTE: Please review the licensing of the datasets in this script before proceeding"
+echo "See https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc99t42 for the licensing"
+echo "Once that is done, please uncomment the wget commands in this script"
+echo ""
 
 RNN_DIR=$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)
 DATA_DIR="${RNN_DIR}/data/"
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ if [[ ! -d "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
   mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
 fi
 
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
diff --git a/example/rnn/old/get_ptb_data.sh b/example/rnn/old/get_ptb_data.sh
index d2641cb32b81..0a0c7051b010 100755
--- a/example/rnn/old/get_ptb_data.sh
+++ b/example/rnn/old/get_ptb_data.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+echo ""
+echo "NOTE: Please review the licensing of the datasets in this script before proceeding"
+echo "See https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc99t42 for the licensing"
+echo "Once that is done, please uncomment the wget commands in this script"
+echo ""
 
 RNN_DIR=$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)
 DATA_DIR="${RNN_DIR}/data/"
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ if [[ ! -d "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
   mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
 fi
 
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/examples/get_ptb_data.sh b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/examples/get_ptb_data.sh
index d2641cb32b81..0a0c7051b010 100755
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/examples/get_ptb_data.sh
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/examples/get_ptb_data.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
+echo ""
+echo "NOTE: Please review the licensing of the datasets in this script before proceeding"
+echo "See https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc99t42 for the licensing"
+echo "Once that is done, please uncomment the wget commands in this script"
+echo ""
 
 RNN_DIR=$(cd `dirname $0`; pwd)
 DATA_DIR="${RNN_DIR}/data/"
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ if [[ ! -d "${DATA_DIR}" ]]; then
   mkdir -p ${DATA_DIR}
 fi
 
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
-wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.train.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.valid.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/ptb/ptb.test.txt;
+#wget -P ${DATA_DIR} https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmlc/web-data/master/mxnet/tinyshakespeare/input.txt;