Oh cool that's sort of exactly what I was thinking! And their blog explains more things I was wondering.
t On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Timothy Vollmer <[email protected]> wrote: > If you haven't already, see https://www.recapthelaw.org/. I think the > records captured via that plugin are hosted on the Internet Archive. > > t > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I have been pondering scraping PACER and hosting it for free. >> http://www.pacer.gov >> >> Given PACER's stupid payment model, I've actually come up with some >> rather bizarre approaches to scraping that don't seem to violate the >> terms of service. >> >> Anyway, I still don't really know whether it's worthwhile; I rarely >> look up court records, but maybe I would if they were available >> through non-proprietary and inexpensive means. >> >> Those of you who regularly use court records can help me by answering >> the following questions. You can reply to me personally in case >> replying to the whole list seems too spammy, but I'd love for this to >> turn into a more open-ended discussion too. >> >> 1 Would a free-of-charge PACER clone be at all useful to you? >> * To measure its utility: If it had a yearly fundraising campaign, how >> much do you think you would you donate to it for one year? >> >> 2 What other sorts of people would use it? >> >> 3 Is there a particular set of case records that might be particularly >> useful? >> >> 4 Is there a different web database that you would particularly like >> to be liberated? >> >> Tom >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
