Craigslist Suing Padmapper
Craig Newmark said on Quora that the reason they didn't like people building stuff on top of Craigslist was simply the extra bandwidth they consumed:<p><a href="http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-top-of-Craigslist-data" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-anyone-built-any-products-on-...</a><p>But now that 3Taps has found an ingenious way to get at the data with zero extra bandwidth cost to Craigslist (by retrieving it from the Google cache rather than CL itself), it's clear that what Craigslist really dislikes is competition.<p>While Craigslist is probably within their legal rights here, this case shows that for all their talk about their benevolent aims, Craigslist is no different from other companies.