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Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records

Posted by kdawson on 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."

2 of 145 comments (clear)

  1. Re:why is PACER even allowed to charge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bankruptcy? Ha ha, you're broke!

  2. Re:Aren't they available through FOIA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Two months and still not a shred of evidence offered.

    You will continue to be reminded. You will continue to be exposed. You will continue to fail utterly at pretending that you are not being humiliated.