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Carl really is an amazing person. If you haven't seen it already, please participate in Operation Asymptote, and tell others to as well: http://www.plainsite.

Carl really is an amazing person. If you haven't seen it already, please participate in Operation Asymptote, and tell others to as well: http://www.plainsite.org/asymptote/ http://www.plainsite.org/asymptote/ I'd like to have every U.S. Attorney's full case history on PlainSite by March 31, 2013. I paid for Ortiz [1] and Heymann [2]. There are a lot more. [1] http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=69049&table=attorneycases http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=69049&#... [2] http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=73864&table=attorneycases http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/attorney.html?id=73864&#... Also, help us with extending RECAP: http://www.plainsite.org/aaronsw/ http://www.plainsite.org/aaronsw/

nitrogen 14y ago
I hope you accomplish your Mar. 31 goal. Quick question: why is the US logo on plainsite.org rendered in Flash?
- thinkcomp 14y ago
  All of the logos (not just the US) are vector images so that they can scale nicely. SVG isn't really reliable enough cross-platform. If you use an iOS device you'll get a PNG instead.
slapshot 14y ago
Is there some level of irony in asking people to take legal risk in order to upload content to a legal research service you charge money for? [1] [1] http://www.plainsite.org/pro/index.html http://www.plainsite.org/pro/index.html
- thinkcomp 14y ago
  No, because nothing being uploaded is for sale. With PlainSite I wanted to see if it was possible to build a business model around public information that is actually available to the public, unlike the traditional model that Lexis, West and Bloomberg use. The dockets are all available for free. The documents are all available for free. Cleaned-up USPTO data is available for free. What isn't free is analytics on the data of the kind that generally only lawyers would care about. Furthermore, the data is being uploaded to the Internet Archive, which PlainSite then re-downloads. Anyone can use it. If you don't like what I'm doing with it, you can do something else. Aaron was an entrepreneur as well as someone who cared deeply about open access to data. So no, I don't think there's much irony.
  - keithpeter 14y ago
    "Furthermore, the data is being uploaded to the Internet Archive, which PlainSite then re-downloads. Anyone can use it. If you don't like what I'm doing with it, you can do something else." Excellent idea (UK resident so the actual information is of no use to me but the model is good)
vertis 14y ago
Sadly it seems you must live in the US to download documents from PACER. Maybe Operation Asymptote could start taking donations from people from overseas?
- thinkcomp 14y ago
  If you have any court documents you'd like uploaded you can e-mail them to help@plainsite.org.
  - vertis 14y ago
    I'm not in need of specific documents. I was wanting to help with the effort, but PACER downloads are only open to US residents. Maybe a Paypal (or equiv) fund could be setup to buy documents.
ddlatham 14y ago
Is there a way to see how much progress toward your goal you've made?

nitrogen 14y ago

I hope you accomplish your Mar. 31 goal. Quick question: why is the US logo on plainsite.org rendered in Flash?

thinkcomp 14y ago
All of the logos (not just the US) are vector images so that they can scale nicely. SVG isn't really reliable enough cross-platform. If you use an iOS device you'll get a PNG instead.

slapshot 14y ago

Is there some level of irony in asking people to take legal risk in order to upload content to a legal research service you charge money for? [1] [1] http://www.plainsite.org/pro/index.html http://www.plainsite.org/pro/index.html

thinkcomp 14y ago
No, because nothing being uploaded is for sale. With PlainSite I wanted to see if it was possible to build a business model around public information that is actually available to the public, unlike the traditional model that Lexis, West and Bloomberg use. The dockets are all available for free. The documents are all available for free. Cleaned-up USPTO data is available for free. What isn't free is analytics on the data of the kind that generally only lawyers would care about. Furthermore, the data is being uploaded to the Internet Archive, which PlainSite then re-downloads. Anyone can use it. If you don't like what I'm doing with it, you can do something else. Aaron was an entrepreneur as well as someone who cared deeply about open access to data. So no, I don't think there's much irony.
- keithpeter 14y ago
  "Furthermore, the data is being uploaded to the Internet Archive, which PlainSite then re-downloads. Anyone can use it. If you don't like what I'm doing with it, you can do something else." Excellent idea (UK resident so the actual information is of no use to me but the model is good)

vertis 14y ago

Sadly it seems you must live in the US to download documents from PACER. Maybe Operation Asymptote could start taking donations from people from overseas?

thinkcomp 14y ago
If you have any court documents you'd like uploaded you can e-mail them to help@plainsite.org.
- vertis 14y ago
  I'm not in need of specific documents. I was wanting to help with the effort, but PACER downloads are only open to US residents. Maybe a Paypal (or equiv) fund could be setup to buy documents.

ddlatham 14y ago

Is there a way to see how much progress toward your goal you've made?