One thing that makes it not so black and white is that it's not Craigslist's data. I'm curious about this point. The article says that Craigslist disrupted the

One thing that makes it not so black and white is that it's not Craigslist's data. I'm curious about this point. The article says that Craigslist disrupted the newspaper classified section. Does this mean that one could type out the classified sections from newspapers without any worries? I'm curious that no-one I'm aware of during the dot-com boom and bust did just that. The other is that Craig has in the past stated publicly that they didn't take issue with other sites using this data except when it caused increased bandwidth costs for CL. Taking it at face value, what's so bad about changing one's position? Don't we all have the right to change our minds, especially if we think our initial position to be incorrect?