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   Aaron deOliveira, Aug 10th, 2012 @ 2:29pm

   
   

   going the way of the classifieds

   craigslist is ripening for disruption. several different attempts have been made to build value on top of it. pretty soon someone will find enough value to build a new platform that accepts these value builders.

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   SujaOfJauhnral (profile), Aug 10th, 2012 @ 2:36pm

   
   

   Re: going the way of the classifieds

   Hurry up is all I can say. Between this and Ebay taxing the shit out of everything I'm dying for a better place to list stuff on.

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   :Lobo Santo (profile), Aug 10th, 2012 @ 2:40pm

   
   

   Re: Re: going the way of the classifieds

   (Not to sound like an advert, but...)
   
   Have you seen bidkat? You could put up a "for sale" page and then throw around links to it on twitter or facebook or... craigslist.

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   Get off my cyber-lawn! (profile), Aug 10th, 2012 @ 3:39pm

   
   

   PIMP

   is what CL would have been if it continued to demand sole rights to all the sex posts on there!

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 10th, 2012 @ 5:06pm

   
   

   I hearby retract my previous "Fuck you craiglist" position.
   
   /Still stand firm on "fuck you whale"

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 10th, 2012 @ 5:07pm

   
   

   Re:

   Also LOLing at the "Craigslist now has something valueable to protect so they have to be dickbags" guy.

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 10th, 2012 @ 5:41pm

   
   

   Safe Harbour

   They have to do this, otherwise they would lose their DMCA safe harbour. If they actually did get an exclusive license for users' content, then that would amount to taking ownership of the copyright in the content, then they lose their DMCA safe harbour. That did not actually happen because transfers of copyright ownership have to be in writing. However, they were skating on thin ice.
   
   They have wisely decided to put the matter of safe harbour back to a safe place.

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   That Anonymous Coward (profile), Aug 11th, 2012 @ 1:18am

   
   

   Of course one is left to wonder why they don't look at the best of the best apps/sites that make "their" content more useful and look at acquiring it.
   
   It almost seems like CL is heading down the path laid out by lawyers, where what they have done is sacred and needs no improvement whatsoever, to suggest change or make change is an attack on an icon!
   
   Evolve or die... accept that people can build upon what you created and make it better. Fighting to stop them wastes time and money, and makes you less useful to users... and well your business isn't exactly rocket science.

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   PCCare247 (profile), Aug 11th, 2012 @ 2:41am

   
   

   Downfall of Craigslist...!!

   Achieving a position and maintaining that position are both important. Looks like Craigslist is struggling to do the latter one.

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    notbob, Aug 11th, 2012 @ 8:57am

    
    

    Silly

    Funny how everyone sees it as a keyhole, as opposed to what it actually is, an "open" break in a closed circle, or an O, if you will. Regardless, I think it's quite a clever symbol. But, for the OSI to go after OSHWA is just plain silly. What's next? Capital C is going to sue capital G for infringement?
    
    nb

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    Anonymous Coward, Aug 11th, 2012 @ 10:30am

    
    

    Re: Silly

    On the wrong article you have commented

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