Maybe it's better to contribute to RECAP. Maybe that's what you were planning...
As for prioritizing, I think http://dockets.justia.com/ has only a subset of cases, and by nature those are going to be cases that people want to check on and read filings from more frequently. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Dec 22, 2011 12:57 PM, "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 > >
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