Keys to the Courthouse

Keys to the Courthouse: Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings--

The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings | Ars Technica: ". . . A key figure in Swartz's PACER effort was Steve Schultze, now a researcher at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Schultze recruited Swartz to the PACER fight and wrote the Perl script Swartz modified and then used to scrape the site. Until recently, Schultze has been quiet about his role in Swartz's PACER scraping caper. But Swartz's death inspired Schultze to speak out. In a recent phone interview, Schultze described how Swartz downloaded gigabytes of PACER data and how that data has been put to use throughout the last four years. Schultze told us he hopes the outrage over Swartz's death will provide momentum for legislation to finish the job Swartz and Schultze started almost five years ago: tearing down PACER's paywall. . . ." Read more at The inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings


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