Indeed ! It was already suggested in https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/486 28 to use this link. It would be very cool to add it to the library. You can make a script to use the new link if you want. You can take some inspiration from the docs 28 and from the current bookcorpus 11 script.
Let me know if you have questions, you can ping me on the forum or on github