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Home 21 Apr 2017 Craigslist gets a $40 million CAN-SPAM judgment Email Classified ad site craigslist is famously protective of its contents. While they are happy for search engines like Google to index the listings, they really, really do not like third parties to scrape and republish their content in other forms. In 2013 craigslist sued a company called 3taps which had created an API for craigslist data. They also sued real estate site Padmapper, which showed craigslist and other apartment listings on a map, something craigslist didn't do at the time. After extensive legal wrangling, 3taps eventually gave up and in 2015 paid craigslist $1 million and shut down. Craigslist donated the money to the EFF which was a little odd since the EFF had generally supported 3taps. One of 3taps' other customers was another real estate site Radpad, which kept showing craigslist listings after 3taps shut down. See more ...   posted at: 23:37 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/radpad.html

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