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Data Scraping C&D Letter
Digital Marketing News Technology News PadMapper’s
Not The Only One With Legal Heat From Craigslist: Here’s Another
Data Scraping C&D Letter| PadMapper’s Not The Only One With Legal Heat From Craigslist: Here’s Another Data Scraping C&D Letter |
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| Tuesday, 24 July 2012 04:42 |
TechCrunch >>  Earlier today, news broke
that Craigslist
has
taken legal action against PadMapper and Craigslist API creator
3Taps -- after an
ongoing disagreement over the scraping of Craigslist data to
use in a third-party service (3Taps
became PadMapper's partner for data acquisition after PadMapper
got the initial C&D). We've also found out that at least one
other developer has been getting cease & desist correspondence
from the listings giant. The move shows that Craigslist is making a
much stronger and wider effort to ensure that its data stays on its
own site, and goes nowhere else. Jeff Kastner, a website developer
based in Missouri, tells TechCrunch that Craigslist issued him a
similar order to stop using its data. The order was not just for a
Craigslist-based site he had developed (
target="_blank"
href="http://www.vending-machinez.info/">www.vending-machinez.info,
which now goes to a holding page but had sold, you guessed it,
vending machine products); but also for a post on his own blog, where
he advertised the sale of a prepopulated Classifieds Website
(which had nothing to do with Craigslist data). We have the letter
from Craigslist embedded below....(Read more)
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