Craigslist Threatens Developers and Locks Down Data to Defend its Decrepit Empire

Craigslist, often portrayed as sleeping giant among the Web’s most trafficked sites, has stirred in recent weeks – and it isn’t happy. Everyone’s favorite place to hunt down an apartment or unload a musty sofa hasn’t been left in the dust. Rather, it has set up camp there with a small arsenal of lawyers and a stubborn ideology that punishes the users it claims to have at heart.