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Re:3taps vs. Craigslist -- Who owns public data? by willrobinson on Friday September 21, 2012 @08:48PM (#4556681)
"stole" market share. You got it. "[S]tole" was just a figure of speech. And that is in fact what meant by stole.

re: scraping. This is something that has come before the courts a few times (I'm thinking Ebay and a few others; although it might have been called "crawling"). Do you think CL can win on a claim of "scraping"?

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Re:3taps vs. Craigslist -- Who owns public data? by tptacek on Friday September 21, 2012 @08:59PM (#4556715)
Yes, they probably can. Read those actual cases. In particular, in the cases where the scraper/crawler won, read why they won.
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Re:3taps vs. Craigslist -- Who owns public data? by willrobinson on Friday September 21, 2012 @09:16PM (#4556753)
Have you read the CL complaint?
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