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RECAP to Make PACER Free?

I'll never understand the whining over PACER's fees.  Computers and servers cost money, and the fees for PACER rarely even hit my radar.   Still, it is obnoxious that I've had to pay an entire sixteen cents thrice today after having run the same search for the Aleynikov case.  Why can't I save myself the sixpence and time of running a search on my coffee breaks?The solution is RECAP.  Details here:What does RECAP do?RECAP is an extension (or ?add on?) for the Firefox web browser that improves the PACER experience while helping PACER users build a free and open repository of public court records. RECAP users automatically donate the documents they purchase from PACER into a public repository hosted by the Internet Archive. And RECAP saves users money by alerting them when a document they are searching for is already available from this repository...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).