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So 3taps has to pay craigslist $1M, and craigslist then has to pay that to the EFF. That seems pretty odd.

• noir_lord 11y ago
  Seems like both sides violated, perhaps the judge had to rule against both but didn't really want to award either side. EFF wins though so that's nice.
• pdabbadabba 11y ago
  It's interesting to ponder whether/how EFF could have ethically negotiated such a settlement on 3taps's behalf.
• fencepost 11y ago
  3taps may not have been able to keep fighting it, but they were able to keep Craigslist from profiting by driving them under. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some element of "agree to this or we spend it all making you pay your lawyers then fold the company with all assets completely exhausted - we'll even sell the name and spend that against you." I believe the term is pyrrhic victory. And there may also be a (future) kneecapping element to it with the release of their scraping source code.
  • thaumaturgy 11y ago
    Right, and CL's lawyers would still be OK with the outcome because now they have established precedent for a million-dollar settlement of a lawsuit for scraping data. If anybody is dumb enough to use that open source code to provide a service that uses scraped CL data, CL's lawyers will be able to open with a settlement offer well in excess of a million dollars.
• sschueller 11y ago
  And Craig Newmark tweets that he is donating $1M to the EFF and makes it sound like it's coming from his funds[1]. [1] https://imgur.com/lKE1Ak4 https://imgur.com/lKE1Ak4 [2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150701/14150431519/no-craig-newmark-did-not-donate-to-eff-he-helped-make-cfaa-worse-instead.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150701/14150431519/no-cr...