3Taps Files Countersuit, Says Craigslist Is Anticompetitive

Re:3Taps Files Countersuit, Says Craigslist Is Anticompetitive by natrius on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:28PM (#4568036)

I don't know of any precedent that gives sites that accept user-generated content grounds to sue when their users' copyrights are violated. I would like to hear of one.

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Re:3Taps Files Countersuit, Says Craigslist Is Anticompetitive by simplesimpl3 on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:49PM (#4568106)

Seconded.

Certainly this issue has come up before. Maybe the fact there is no precedent tells us something? Who would benefit from keeping the issue undecided?

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Re:3Taps Files Countersuit, Says Craigslist Is Anticompetitive by pyre on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:13PM (#4568166)

If you're scraping user-submitted content by accessing (e.g.) CraigsList, then I would think that CraigsList could try and claim that it was unauthorized access of their systems.

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Re:3Taps Files Countersuit, Says Craigslist Is Anticompetitive by natrius on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @02:23AM (#4568932)

Agreed, but my understanding is that 3Taps pulled the listings via Google cache.

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