Craigslist blocks Yahoo Pipes and there is a Hacker News discussion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970934 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970934 Then

Craigslist blocks Yahoo Pipes and there is a Hacker News discussion. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970934 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970934 Then a Techcrunch Post: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/craigslist-yahoo-pipes-flippity/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/craigslist-yahoo-pipes-... Jim makes a statement: "Yesterday afternoon craigslist engineering noticed a disproportionate amount of server/bandwidth resources being consumed by requests referred via Yahoo Pipes, with the lion’s share of that activity appearing also to be in violation of CL terms of use. Pipes access has been suspended pending further review." If a bunch of people started emailing and tweeting Craig and Jim and then Techcrunch inserted themselves into the story with another story or two about the dramatic situation, they really might open API access.