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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 w

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.