IST 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Secondary Liability
29 Jul 2015
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Facts: the plaintiff (craigslist) is filing a third amended complaint against. Defendants (3taps and padmapper) on grounds of secondary copyright infringement liability as well as re-urge, on grounds of new evidence, a conspiracy claim that the court dismissed over two years ago. Padmapper is a website specialized for browsing housing ads. Craigslist and offered a map of the ads. 3taps, a data scraping and hosting company, was also collecting data from craigslist as part of a larger effort to gather public datasets. On 22 june 2012, craigslist sent a cease-and- desist letter to padmapper, requesting that padmapper stop scraping craigslist"s real estate listings. Craigslist also blocked padmapper"s and 3taps"s ip addresses from accessing its site, causing a significant drop in traffic to. Padmapper. 3taps continued to collect data from craigslist by accessing the site through proxies, which allowed it to conceal its ip address and bypass.
