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eBay - Craigslist

1 Initially, eBay assured Craigslist that they would not ask the company to

change the way it does business


eBay - Craigslist

1 However, the judge dismissed eBay's objection to a staggered board

provision citing that Craigslist has the right to protect its own trade

secrets


Gawker - Chris Lee Craigslist emails

1 In February 2011, Gawker posted an email exchange between United

States Congressman Chris Lee and a woman he had met through a

personal ad on Craigslist. The emails included the married Lee describing himself as a divorced lobbyist and a photo of him posing shirtless. Lee resigned his Congressional seat within hours of Gawker's story.


EBay.com - Craigslist

1 However, the judge dismissed eBay's objection to a staggered board

provision citing that Craigslist has the right to protect its own trade

secrets


Craigslist

1 'Craigslist' (styled 'craigslist') is a classified advertising|classified

advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personal advertisement|personals, for sale,

items wanted, services, community service|community, gig (musical performance)|gigs, résumés, and

discussion forums.


Craigslist

1 Craigslist has a current market valuation of $2 billion and an estimated revenue of $166M

in 2012


Craigslist - History

1 Having observed people helping one another in friendly, social, and trusting communal ways on the Internet via the WELL (virtual

community)|WELL, MindVox and Usenet, and feeling isolated as a

relative newcomer to San Francisco, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark

decided to create something similar for local events.


Craigslist - History

1 On , 2010, after pressure from Ottawa and several provinces,

Craigslist closed 'Erotic Services' and 'Adult Gigs' from its Canadian

website, even though prostitution is prostitution in Canada|not itself

illegal in Canada.


Craigslist - Criticism

1 In July 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle criticized Craigslist for

allowing ads from dog breeders, and thereby allegedly encouraging the

over breeding and irresponsible selling of pit bulls in the Bay Area.


Craigslist - Criticism

1 In January 2006, the San Francisco Bay Guardian published an editorial criticizing

Craigslist for moving into local communities and threatening to

eviscerate local alternative newspapers. Craigslist has been compared to Walmart,

a multinational corporation that some feel crushes small local businesses when they move into towns and offer a huge assortment of goods at lower prices.


Craigslist - Nonprofit foundation

1 In 2001, the company started the Craigslist Foundation,[http://www.craigslistfoundation.or

g/ Craigslist Foundation] a § 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers free and low cost events and online resources to promote community building at all levels. It accepts

charitable donations, and rather than directly funding organizations, it produces face-to-face

events and offers online resources to help grassroots organizations get off the ground and contribute real value to the community.



1 Since 2004, the Craigslist Foundation has hosted eight annual conferences called Boot Camp, an in-person event that focuses on skills for connecting,

motivating and inspiring greater community involvement and impact.

Boot Camp has drawn more than 10,000 people since its inception. The latest Boot Camp event was held on

June 2, 2011, 8 am–5:30 pm.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html


1 The Craigslist Foundation is also the fiscal sponsor for Our Good Works,

the organization that manages AllforGood.org, an application that distributes volunteer opportunities

across the web and helps people get involved in their communities.



1 As of summer 2013, the Craigslist Foundation's functions are mostly moved to LikeMinded.org and the

CraigsListFoundation.org is no longer updated.


Craigslist - Related media

1 * In 2003, Michael Ferris Gibson filmed the documentary 24 Hours on Craigslist.



1 * In November 2007, Ryan J. Davis directed Jeffery Self's solo show My

Life on the Craigslist at Off-Broadway's New World Stages. The

show focuses on a young man's sexual experiences on Craigslist and was so successful that it returned to

New York by popular demand in .



1 * On June 16, 2009, Weird Al Yankovic released a song titled Craigslist

(song)|Craigslist, which is a parody of the website, done in the style of The

Doors.



1 * On January 3, 2011, a movie named The Craigslist Killer premiered on

Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime featuring the story of Philip Markoff, who was accused of robbing and/or murdering several sex workers he

met through Craigslist's adult services section.



1 * The premise of the sitcom New Girl (TV series)|New Girl centers around a girl (Zooey Deschanel) who looks on

Craigslist to find new roommates. She misunderstands one of the

listings and ends up moving in with three men, when she had intended to

find female roommates.



1 * The American comedy series Bored to Death revolves around a fictional

Jonathan Ames (played by Jason Schwartzman) who posts an ad on Craigslist advertising himself as an

unlicensed private detective.



1 * The documentary Craigslist Joe, released in August 2012, documents a 29-year-old man living for 31 days

solely from donations of food, shelter, and transportation

throughout the U.S. found via Craigslist.


Craigslist (song)

1 The song was released shortly after the closure of the Michael John

Anderson (Craigslist Killer) case, a factor Yankovic considered

unfortunate timing.


Craigslist (song)

1 The single was the first of four new singles that were being released as

part of the Internet Leaks EP. Craigslist was released digitally on

June 16, 2009.


Craigslist (song) - Composition

1 As a style parody, the song does not take directly from any single Doors song, but Yankovic transposed parts from various songs and combined them into what became Craigslist


Craigslist (song) - Reception

1 The music style of Craigslist has been considered to be a dead-on parody of The

Doors. Marc Hirsh of National Public Radio|NPR noted that the composition and performance of Craigslist are evidence that Yankovic is a

Stealth Pop Musicologist, able to deconstruct a genre of work and recreate it into something new without being unrecognizable. Craigslist

founder Craig Newmark, after being asked how he felt about the song, responded, The thing's

pretty funny!.


Richard Blumenthal - Craigslist

1 In March 2008, Blumenthal issued a letter to Craigslist attorneys

demanding that the website cease allowing postings for erotic services,

which he claimed promoted prostitution, and he accused the site of turning a blind eye to the problem.



1 Blumenthal claimed that Craigslist has the means -- and moral

obligation -- to stop the pimping and prostituting in plain sight.



1 Blumenthal also called on Congress to alter a landmark communications law (Communications Decency Act)

that Craigslist has cited in defense of the ads.



1 sites in September 2010Bray, Chad, [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720004575477522932119204.html Blumenthal Pressures

Craigslist on Prostitution Ads], The Wall Street Journal, September 7,

2010



1 Blumenthal and other state attorneys general reached a settlement with Craigslist on the issue; the settlement called for the company to charge people via credit card for any ads that were suggestive in nature

so the person could be tracked down if they were determined to in fact be offering

prostitution. However, Blumenthal remarked that subsequent to the settlement, the ads had continued to flourish using veiled code

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Craigslist Joe

1 'Craigslist Joe' is a 2012 documentary film that follows Joseph Garner for a month of travel across the United

States, solely supporting himself via contacting people on the website

Craigslist. He spent the month without using any form of currency and without contacting people he

already knew, relying on the kindness and generosity of Craigslist

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Craigslist Joe - History

1 All of the meals, shelter, and transportation would be solely

acquired from the connections which he made on Craigslist.


Craigslist Joe - History

1 Garner and Flint journeyed across America, visiting many major cities,

including New York, Chicago, Tallahassee, New Orleans, Portland, Oregon|Portland, and San Francisco

(where he managed to meet Craigslist's founder, Craig Newmark).

Garner even took a pitstop to visit Mexico with one of the connections

that he made.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html

Craigslist Joe - Reception

1 Craigslist Joe elicited mixed reactions. Drew Prindle, writing for Digital Trends, said that The doc

definitely has a few flaws, but they are mostly overshadowed by its

numerous strengths. Variety (magazine)|Variety's Dennis Harvey opined that the movie was shallow

and bland.


24 Hours on Craigslist

1 The film, made with the approval of Craigslist's founder Craig Newmark, is woven from interviews with the

site's users, all of whom opted in to be contacted by the production when they submitted their posts on August

4, 2003


24 Hours on Craigslist - Plot

1 24 Hours on Craigslist tells the story of 121 people who used Craiglist on August 4, 2003.


24 Hours on Craigslist - Production

1 Two days later Michael met with Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist's CEO, and Craig Newmark to discuss the film concept: creating a documentary

entirely 'from' Craigslist; crew, cast, and music would all be sourced from

the site


24 Hours on Craigslist - Film festivals

1 Several different versions of 24 Hours on Craigslist screened in nine

different film festivals around the world. In addition, the film was selected to screen in Toronto,

Canada, in April 2005 by HotDocs for its monthly screening series Doc

Soup.


24 Hours on Craigslist - Commercial distribution

1 The director and producer of the film distributed 24 Hours on Craigslist

theatrically in the United States and Canada under the distribution label

of Zealot Pictures. Heretic Films released the film on DVD on April 25,

2006.


Craigslist v. 3Taps

1 'Craigslist Inc. v. 3Taps Inc.' was a United States District Court for the

Northern District of California|Northern District of California Court

case in which the court held that sending a cease-and-desist letter and

enacting an IP address block is sufficient notice of online

trespassing, which a plaintiff can use to claim a violation of the Computer

Fraud and Abuse Act.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html

Craigslist v. 3Taps

1 3Taps and PadMapper were companies that partnered to provide

an alternative user interface for browsing Craigslist's housing ads.


Craigslist v. 3Taps

1 In doing so, they scraped Craigslist's site for data, which Craigslist did not

approve of. Craigslist sent both companies a cease-and-desist letter and blocked their IP addresses, but

this did not stop 3Taps from scraping through other IP addresses. Craigslist

then sued, resulting in this case.


Craigslist v. 3Taps

1 3Taps should have known that Craigslist was revoking its authorization to access the site


Craigslist v. 3Taps - Background

1 Craigslist is a website where users post and browse classified ads for,

among other things, housing.



1 3Taps, a data scraping and hosting company, was also collecting data from Craigslist as part of a larger effort to gather public datasets.



1 On 22 June 2012, Craigslist sent a Cease and desist|cease-and-desist

letter to PadMapper, requesting that PadMapper stop scraping Craigslist's

real estate listings.



1 Earlier in 2010, Craigslist's founder Craig Newmark had written that we take issue with only services which

consume a lot of bandwidth.



1 Craigslist also blocked PadMapper's and 3Taps's IP addresses from accessing its site, causing a significant drop in traffic to

PadMapper.



1 3Taps continued to collect data from Craigslist by accessing the site

through Proxy server|proxies, which allowed it to conceal its IP address

and bypass Craigslist's block.



1 On 9 July 2012, PadMapper restored its site by getting its data from 3Taps

instead of directly from Craigslist.



1 On July 16, 2012 Craigslist changed their terms of service to claim

exclusive ownership, and exclusive right to enforce copyright of all

postings made by users. Craigslist later rescinded these changes under pressure from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others on August 8,

2012.



1 On 20 July 2012, Craigslist sued both

PadMapper and 3Taps.



1 Craigslist's complaint specified several reasons that 3Taps's

continued use of Craigslist was unlawful:



1 and it infringed on and diluted Craigslist's trademark. 3Taps

opposed the claim that it violated the CFAA.


Craigslist v. 3Taps - Opinion of the Court

1 On April 29, 2013 the court denied 3Taps's motion to dismiss Craiglists's

CFAA claim. Most importantly the court held that Craigslist could

continue its damages claim on posts made between July 16, 2012 and

August 8, 2012. This was the period during which Craigslist had modified its terms of service to claim exclusive

copyright on all postings.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html

Craigslist v. 3Taps - Response of the Court to 3Taps Arguments for Dismissal

1 First, 3Taps argued that it had Craigslist's authorization to access the listings.



1 It claimed that Craigslist was a public website, so anyone, including 3Taps

always had authorization.



1 The court disagreed with this, stating that although Craigslist had granted 3Taps authorization initially, it then

revoked the authorization.



1 Thus, the court held that 3Taps was unauthorized when it continued to

access Craigslist after Craigslist rescinded the authorization.



1 Second, 3Taps suggested that Craigslist had set restrictions on how 3Taps must use the data, rather than restricting 3Taps's access to the data

altogether.



1 3Taps likened Nosal to its own case, alleging that Craigslist had taken measures to prevent 3Taps from

using the listings in a certain way, rather than enacting a

straightforward access revocation.



1 The court viewed it differently: it considered Craigslist's cease-and-

desist letter and IP blocking as access revocation.



1 The court pointed to language Craigslist's cease-and-desist letter

affirming its interpretation, You ... are hereby prohibited from accessing and using the CL Services for any

reason.



1 It criticized that Craigslist's enforcement was not clear about

what exactly what it was prohibiting.



1 The court admitted that it could not comment on whether it would

consider Craigslist's IP blocking to be effective, but considered the fact that 3Taps went out of its way to

bypass it as enough evidence that 3Taps acted without authorization.


Craigslist v. 3Taps - Reactions

1 The court, in many instances, pointed to Craigslist's cease-and-

desist letter as evidence that 3Taps knew that its authorization had been

revoked.



1 Law professor Eric Goldman questioned this, stating that [cease-and-desist letters] are wish lists by

the senders. They describe what the sender wants to happen. As such they may easily overstate what a

defendant must lawfully do. Goldman found it troubling that the court had

treated it as a legally-binding document that revoked 3Taps's

authorization to access Craigslist.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html


1 The case has also brought criticism towards Craigslist for enforcing its

exclusive copyright of user-generated content.



1 The critics pointed out that the entire lawsuit depended on a short, one-week long period where Cragslist's

terms of use required that users assign Craigslist the exclusive

copyright of any posted content.



1 Craigslist would be under similar criticism if it had allowed the sharing

and violated these users' privacy expectations.


Ryan J. Davis - My Life on the Craigslist

1 In November 2007, Davis directed Jeffery Self in My Life on the

Craigslist at Off-Broadway's New World

Stages.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/111961.html Playbill News: Jeffery Self to Offer My Life on the

Craigslist at New World Stages Nov. 1] The show focuses on a young gay

man's sexual experiences on Craigslist.


The Craigslist Killer (film)

1 'The Craigslist Killer' is a 2011 American crime drama television film directed by Stephen Kay, written by Donald Martin and Stephen Tolkin. It

stars Jake McDorman, Agnes Bruckner, Kevin Kilner and William

Baldwin. It follows the dark, mysterious life of Philip Markoff.


The Craigslist Killer (film)

1 The film made its debut on January 3, 2011 on Lifetime (TV network)|

Lifetime. It is based on the book A Date with Death: The Secret Life of the Accused Craigslist Killer, written

by Michele McPhee.


The Craigslist Killer (film) - Plot

1 When police discover that the brutal killing and a number of other attacks

on women were all connected to advertisements placed on Craigslist, their investigation ultimately leads

them to Markoff


Amber Lyon - 2010 Craigslist sex trafficking

1 As a result, Craigslist closed down the section

worldwide.[http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/craigslist-censors-adult-

services-section/story?id=11560005/ ] Lyon also won a Gracie Award for

women in media for the story.


Gawker.com - Chris Lee Craigslist emails

1 In February 2011, Gawker posted an email exchange between United States Congressman Chris Lee

(politician)|Chris Lee and a woman he had met through a personal ad on Craigslist. The emails included the married Lee describing himself as a divorced lobbyist and a photo of him

posing shirtless. Lee resigned his Congressional seat within hours of

Gawker's story.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html

List of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien sketches - I Put The Tonight Show on Craigslist

1 Saying, I do not know if I'm even legally allowed to do this, but screw it, Conan says he put The Tonight Show up for sale on Craigslist, and

shows the real responses he received, and that these are real

photos of what was offered, such as a 1970 AMC Gremlin, or someone's brother. No element of The Tonight

Show was actually sold.https://store.theartofservice.com/the-craigslist-toolkit.html

Tom Dart - Craigslist lawsuit

1 In March 2009, Dart filed a lawsuit in federal court against Craigslist, Inc. (09-CV-1385),

[http://pub.bna.com/eclr/dartvcraigslist.pdf Dart v. Craigslist], 665 F. Supp. 2d 961 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 20, 2009) to close the erotic services section of Craigslist. The suit claims that Craigslist is the largest source of prostitution This lawsuit was dismissed on October 23, 2009 on the grounds

that Craigslist is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act|Section 230

immunity.


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