"The pressure to greater access was coming from a new generation of online competitors, led by brokers like Lawrence Dale, president of the now defunct Realtysellers Real Estate Inc., who were seeking better access to crucial MLS data such as the sales histories of houses" said the article in the Toronto Star on Mon Apr 15, 2013.
TREB argued it was protecting its clients’ privacy and the proprietary MLS system and the case was inevitably dismissed.