Saturday, February 9, 2013

The case against Aaron Swartz that the Feds dropped: His plan to liberate Federal Court filings


The case against Aaron Swartz that the Feds dropped: His plan to liberate Federal Court filings
Posted By: MrFusion [Send E-Mail]
Date: Friday, 8-Feb-2013 23:21:09
To download an electronic copy of a Federal Court filing from their PACER system costs 10 cents a page. You probably thought it was free, right? Well, the late Aaron Swartz thought they should be. And before he got into hot water for scraping millions of academic research documents from JSTOR, he was investigated for similar acts of information liberation from PACER. The FBI tried to develop a prosecutable case against him for these activities, and failed. But PACER documents still aren't free, and Swartz's associates are still trying to change that:
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The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings
And how his allies are trying to finish the job by tearing down a big paywall.

by Timothy B. Lee - Feb 8 2013

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/the-inside-story-of-aaron-swartzs-campaign-to-liberate-court-filings/
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