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A comment on Recap: A Firefox Plugin That Liberates Paywalled Court Records. Parent comment

Re:Recap: A Firefox Plugin That Liberates Paywalled Court Re... by potatolicious on Friday August 14, 2009 @04:53PM (#763820)
"A possible solution to this would be a published hash value from the original source."

If you get the government to agree to that, I think it would be trivial to get them to agree to release the documents themselves...

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Re:Recap: A Firefox Plugin That Liberates Paywalled Court Re... by ramchip on Friday August 14, 2009 @04:57PM (#763829)
Not necessarily, since the problem is mostly bandwidth and distribution.
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Re:Recap: A Firefox Plugin That Liberates Paywalled Court Re... by anthonymc on Saturday August 15, 2009 @01:49AM (#764420)
That is what I was thinking. Publishing a hash along with the listing of the article would essentially be free as far as bandwidth costs are concerned which is what is supposed to be the reason for the fee.
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