On August 3, a large classified advertising company filed a stipulated judgment of $31 million to settle and release claims against a used-car listing service that scraped contact information and other content from the advertising giant's website. According to the agreement, the listing service copied content from the advertising company's website, including users' contact information and pictures, and sent emails to the users seeking more information, which it then used to create unauthorized advertisements on its own website.
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