I'm as much about free access to data as anyone, but holy shit do you have a warped view of the world. Craigslist doesn't have to pay money to run their compan

I'm as much about free access to data as anyone, but holy shit do you have a warped view of the world. Craigslist doesn't have to pay money to run their company and users don't have to use Craigslist. But because Craigslist does and the users do, doesn't give anyone the right to scrape this data. The individual user owns their content, but Craigslist owns and runs the servers and access to this data for third parties is not a right -- it's a biz dev deal or partnership. If the world worked how you want it to, no one would run any services because the load generated from scrapers would outweigh real user usage by a factor of 100x. And your competitors and parasitic freeloaders would just DoS you into monetary ruin. You're not entitled to anything, and Craigslist doesn't owe you a business model. TL:DR: This lawsuit is going straight into the trash.