For years, craigslist has aggressively used technological and legal methods to prevent unauthorized parties from scraping, linking to or accessing user postings for their own commercial purposes. In a prior post, we briefly discussed craigslist’s action against a certain aggregator that was scraping content from the craigslist site (despite having received a cease and desist letter informing it that it was no long permitted to access the site) and offering the data to outside developers through an API. (See generally Craigslist, Inc. v. 3Taps, Inc., 2013 WL 1819999 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 30, 2013)). In 2015, craigslist subsequently settled the 3Taps lawsuit, with relief against various defendants that included monetary payments and a permanent injunction barring the defendants from accessing any craigslist content, circumventing any technological measures that prohibit spidering activity or otherwise representing that they were affiliated with craigslist... Continue Reading