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Poomba | 4 months ago

Why are they going after the small fish?

If they really want to put a dent into this, go after the biggest players scraping LinkedIn: PeopleDataLabs and Apollo.io (and no, taking down their company page does not count)

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tomkarho|4 months ago

Victory against small fish => establish legal precedence

legal precedence => Surer victory in the future for similar lawsuits

deepsun|4 months ago

Only if the case goes to trial.

If they settle, or the case got dismissed -- no precedent is set.

RobRivera|4 months ago

Against bigger fish.

And there's always a bigger fish.

deadbabe|4 months ago

Go after small fish that no one cares about first to normalize the activity, then move up to bigger and bigger targets until you become inevitable.

el_benhameen|4 months ago

Or, go after the small fish who can’t afford to have a biglaw team on retainer, bulldoze them to get a legal precedent set, and then use the example to extract concessions from the bigger players.

Goofy_Coyote|4 months ago

Because they either have side deals with the big names, or they want to set precedent for going after them.

Not trying to be a conspiracy theorist here, but my bet is on having a deal with the big players, we allow you to scrape us (or we give you a pipe you can consume out of), and you pay us in monetary or non-monetary terms; like how many business exchanges work

Poomba|4 months ago

I doubt they have side deals. They took action on some of them by removing their company page, but that is like a slap in the hand.

If you want to make a big deal about this, tell us you at least sent a letter to the big players too. Otherwise, dont put up such a huge show

altairprime|4 months ago

They have a trademark ridealong whose chances improve against a less-recognized company.