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A comment on A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Illegal.

Re:A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Ill... by lostlogin on Monday January 14, 2013 @02:07AM (#5053618)
The article cites PlainSite as a cost reference. That surely can't be the cost of a developer, server, bandwidth etc? Free labour? Anyone know more? I know that an enerprising hacker can do a lot, but setting up a system better than another that has a $25 million budget? And would anyone care to guess what it should cost per page (ideally with some sort of cost justification)? 1c? .01c?
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Re:A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Ill... by jcromartie on Monday January 14, 2013 @03:54PM (#5056613)
It should cost $0 per page. The infrastructure and maintenance for a document database of our country's tax-funded court proceedings should be so vanishingly small in relation to what we already spend on the justice system that it should approach 0.
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