Friday, December 12, 2008

Making the public domain public

Public Records: now with availability to the public!

"If you want to search federal court documents, it's not a problem. Just apply online for an account, and the government will issue you a user name and password.

Through the postal service.

And once you log in, the government's courthouse search engine known as Public Access to Court Electronic Records or PACER, will charge you 8 cents a page to read documents that are in the public domain — a fee that earned the federal judiciary $50 million in profits in 2006."


This guy is taking the records and posting them online for free.

Imagine that: public records available to the public. For free.

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