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FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records

When Aaron Swartz, a 22 year-old programmer, decided last fall to help an open government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d...

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Federal courts now offer hearings online as MP3 files

US federal courts are in the midst of a fascinating pilot program that could eventually bring MP3 digital audio recordings of court proceedings in a Montana federal building to an investigative journalist working...

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Thursday, September 24th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Fed Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin

The federal court system doesn’t seem to like Harlan Yu and his fellow merry pranksters who made a tool to free court documents from an unwieldy computer system that has a nasty habit...

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Incoming CEO’s Manifesto for New Pirate Bay

Global Gaming Factory CEO Hans Pandeya of Sweden. AP Photo Hans Pandeya, the Global Gaming Factory chief executive readying to purchase The Pirate Bay on Thursday, has written a manifesto of sorts concerning...

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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Firefox Plug-In Frees Court Records, Threatens Judiciary Profits

Access to the nation’s federal law proceedings just got a public interest hack, thanks to programmers from Princeton, Harvard and the Internet Archive, who released a Firefox plug-in designed to make millions of...

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Friday, August 14th, 2009 Net News No Comments

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