Federal courts make it more expensive to access records (PACER update)

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110915/11303415963/federal-courts-making-it-more-expensive-to-access-records-even-as-theyre-swimming-cash.shtml

by grellas • 15 years ago

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petrilli• 15 years ago

Only when it assists in denying the public visibility into the operation of the government do things in the tech world get MORE expensive over time.

kbatten• 15 years ago

Well that and transfer caps from ISPs getting lower (or more expensive for the same cap) over time.

suking• 15 years ago

I don't even get how they can charge for these public records. They should be free. I wonder if a lawyer could sue to make them free???

sp3325• 15 years ago

They're not charging for the records, they're charging for use of the PACER system.. It's supposed to cover the cost of serving up the documents, but there's a huge surplus. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/federal-cour... It's not like they're claiming the documents are copyrighted or anything.

VladRussian2• 15 years ago

>It's not like they're claiming the documents are copyrighted or anything.

no, you don't need to claim anything when FBI is watching for your financial interests :

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/swartz-fbi/

jcrites• 15 years ago

Does this mean that I could download each document out of PACER once, and publish it to a world-readable Amazon S3 bucket? (The type where each user pays their own S3 costs to download from it)

Federal courts make it more expensive to access records (PACER update)

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