Posted On ABA Latest Legal News on Aug 14, 2009, 01:34 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
Many federal courts make their opinions readily available online--for a price. And even though it's only eight cents a page, that can quickly add up for frequent users.
As some users unhappy about the cost of the PACER (short for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system lobby for changes, others are developing workarounds. The latest is a website launched today, RECAP, that offers a download to open source software through which PACER documents are seamlessless duplicated as they are pulled up by participants, according to Ars Technica.
The Firefox extension puts the duplicated documents on a mirror hosted by Internet Archive, and eventually, if enough people use the RECAP website system, there will be a substantial library of free documents available, the law blog explains.
RECAP was developed by the Center for Information Techology Policy at Princeton University.
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