US courts trash a decade’s worth of online documents, shrug it off | Ars
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PACER has long been criticized as a deeply dated system that already does
too little and charges too much for access to things like judicial orders
that are important public documents. Its inefficiency spawned a project
called RECAP
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/swartz-death-inspires-expanded-effort-to-liberate-paywalled-court-docs/>,
which worked with the Internet Archive to make PACER documents available
for free, instead of the 10 cents per page PACER charges. (PACER actually
raised its charge from seven to ten cents per page, all while bandwidth and
storage costs plummeted.)

Further, it seems like a loss that could easily have been avoided. There's
little question that there are archivists, librarians, or companies that
would have gladly taken the electronic documents and likely would have made
them available for free—or certainly less than the 10 cents per page that
PACER still charges. The Administrative Office wouldn't comment when asked
why there was no warning about the coming changes.


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