Victory for craigslists in War Against Data Scraping: Circumventing IP Address Blocking May Trigger CFAA Claim

craigslists Wins Again Classified megasite craiglists won another victory in its fight to block 3Taps from aggregating and republishing craigslist ads. As set forth in the craiglists complaint, 3Taps copies (or “scrapes”) all content posted to craigslist in real time, directly from the craigslist website; markets a “craigslist API” to allow third parties to access…

In the Courts: Bloggers, CAN-SPAM & Supreme Cluelessness

Websites and Bloggers Targeted By Newspaper Chain; States Split on Shield Law Stevens Media, through a Nevada company known as Right haven, LLC, has filed approximately 11 copyright infringement lawsuits against bloggers and websites.  Stevens Media, which owns Newspapers in 9 states including its flagship the Las Vegas Review , has assigned copyrights to some…