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[ PRIVACY Forum ] More on Craigslist vs. Sites using Craigslist Data
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More on Craigslist vs. Sites using Craigslist Data
http://j.mp/PWVME8 (The Peanut Blogs)
PadMapper uses 3Taps services for its apartment-listings search
engine, which relies on Craigslist data to show where rentals are
located on a map. Eric DeMenthon, who runs the company from his
apartment in Mountain View, California, said in an e-mail that his
income from running PadMapper has barely turned a profit. He is unsure
how he will afford to defend himself in court, he wrote. "I would
have much preferred to just talk with them and figure out something we
were both happy with, but they weren't willing to meet," DeMenthon
wrote. "A single meeting could have made this a non-issue for both of
us." Craigslist offered to let PadMapper license its data, DeMenthon
said. The license costs $5,000 per year and gives Craigslist 10
percent of an app's revenue, according to a copy of the agreement
obtained by Bloomberg. Jeff Kastner, who received a cease-and-desist
letter this month but was not named in the lawsuit, wasn't offered a
similar licensing deal for his series of Craigslist-powered websites,
he wrote in an e-mail. He ran about 50 websites that Craigslist
targeted. Kastner is in the process of taking down his sites, which
earned $24,000 from Google ads over two years, he said. "It was never
a primary source of income," Kastner wrote. "Not worth the hassle of a
lawsuit."
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