34
Court Records Should Be Free (www.eff.org)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/libreculture@lemmy.ca
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

all 5 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Do you mean completely free? If I went to a courthouse and demanded every record from every trial that they have conducted since the very beginning, should I be able to walk away with a huge stack of paper?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    No, you should just get a shoebox full of microfilm. Or maybe you could just download some files, since we have this insane shit now called computers, where completely electronic documents are stored in virtual folders.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    And these things (computers) are mental. You don't even have to read a few thousand pages anymore to find out whether some name is contained in the text. Just press Ctrl+F and it'll "read" thousands of pages and highligt every occurrence. Within a split second! That used to be multiple days of work for some cheap law trainee.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent