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Very! Google provides a way for you to opt out. This is not the case of "Oh, I went to their website and they sued us out of existence." This is more of a case of they were asked to not do something and they said fuck you I'll do it anyway. I don't like CFAA but I'd say these 3tap people failed at being nice to others.

Screw them.



Yes, I remember those discussions here in HN. The simple fact was they had built and entire product around someone else's data. They maintained an "f-you" attitude even after the cease and desists. Those companies got hammered because of their arrogance. They could have built a CL-killer but instead they built a CL-piggybacker but did so in a way that violated CL's terms of use.


By "somebody else's data" you mean the end users who list their properties on Craigslist, right?




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