The PACER “policies and procedures” prohibits “any attempt to collect data from PACER in a manner which avoids billing.” Is this what RECAP is designed to do?
Absolutely not. PACER charges users for the documents they download from PACER. RECAP users pay for every document they download from PACER, just like any other user. RECAP simply gives users a second option: to easily share documents directly with one another, as they’re permitted to do under copyright law. When a user downloads a RECAP document, the document comes directly from the Internet Archive’s web server; the process imposes no additional load on PACER’s web servers.
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