Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 14, 2009 @01:01AM from the free-as-in-beer dept.

Timothy B. Lee writes "If you want to access federal court records, you're often forced to use PACER, a cumbersome, paywalled Web site run by the federal judiciary. My colleagues and I at Princeton's Center for IT Policy have released a new Firefox extension called RECAP that allows users to automatically upload the documents they download from PACER into a public archive hosted by the Internet Archive. It also saves users money by automatically notifying them if a document they're searching for is available for free from the public archive. Over time, we hope to build a comprehensive, free repository of federal court records that's available to everyone."

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This will turn out well by vrmlguy · 2009-08-14 01:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Because subverting the will of the judiciary always turns out well.

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Re:Nice job... by HAKdragon · 2009-08-14 02:19 · Score: 3, Funny

0118999881999119725...... 3

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