Great comment. "trying to rationalize..." I think that really says it all. Human nature indeed. It's certainly not rational.
Yeah, it would be futile for CL to go after Padmapper, so they are going after 3Taps. Why would they be more worried about 3Taps? Because anyone can do what 3Taps is doing. Anyone can pull CL data from a search engine…
Is 3Taps different from Google simply because they show a map? Maybe CL should have terms for their general website that say data can be scraped and cached but that it must appear in the cache either exactly as it does…
Seconded. Certainly this issue has come up before. Maybe the fact there is no precedent tells us something? Who would benefit from keeping the issue undecided?
People should post their cease and desist letters from CL so others can see. I doubt you were the only person to receive one. Sometime when something doesn't seem right, it's because it isn't.
That was CL's big mistake. These sort of unreasonable licensing terms that users never read are exactly the kind courts refuse to enforce. Maybe you just want CL to win? That's different from whether CL has a real…
Great comment. "trying to rationalize..." I think that really says it all. Human nature indeed. It's certainly not rational.
Yeah, it would be futile for CL to go after Padmapper, so they are going after 3Taps. Why would they be more worried about 3Taps? Because anyone can do what 3Taps is doing. Anyone can pull CL data from a search engine…
Is 3Taps different from Google simply because they show a map? Maybe CL should have terms for their general website that say data can be scraped and cached but that it must appear in the cache either exactly as it does…
Seconded. Certainly this issue has come up before. Maybe the fact there is no precedent tells us something? Who would benefit from keeping the issue undecided?
People should post their cease and desist letters from CL so others can see. I doubt you were the only person to receive one. Sometime when something doesn't seem right, it's because it isn't.
That was CL's big mistake. These sort of unreasonable licensing terms that users never read are exactly the kind courts refuse to enforce. Maybe you just want CL to win? That's different from whether CL has a real…