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by jasonkester
4001 days ago
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> Craigslist killed two companies ... but they didn't. Those two companies killed themselves by building their entire business off of data that the didn't have the right to use. And it's not like they were led to believe that the data was usable. It was clearly marked as not usable, for the exact purpose they used it for. It may be that your personal opinion is that once a piece of text is on the internet, it's fair game to use. But it's not. Thankfully. Chances are we're both wrong (you legally and me libertarianally). But the only thing we've established here is that we disagree. |
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I disagree. You're implying that Craigslist was passive, and they were just watching from the sidelines. They weren't. They sued.
> building their entire business off of data that the didn't have the right to use.
This is our main point of contention, and we'll probably just agree to disagree.
> It may be that your personal opinion is that once a piece of text is on the internet, it's fair game to use.
imo it depends on how you use it. Unless I misunderstood something, if we had it your way we wouldn't even be able to write wikipedia articles based on data gleaned from online content even with attribution unless the owner gives permission