> I'm the director of Free Law Project. For the case mentioned in the article we actually did a full expert testimony figuring out roughly how much per page it'd cost to run PACER using AWS GovCloud and a handful of other assumptions. It was...half a ten thousandth of a penny per page, IIRC:
(friendly reminder that if you create and maintain a PACER account, and use it to extract docs for Recap the Law, as long as you stay under $30 in spend per quarter, the requests are free: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work)
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[ 0.18 ms ] story [ 2.0 ms ] thread> I'm the director of Free Law Project. For the case mentioned in the article we actually did a full expert testimony figuring out roughly how much per page it'd cost to run PACER using AWS GovCloud and a handful of other assumptions. It was...half a ten thousandth of a penny per page, IIRC:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4214664/52/15/national-...
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(friendly reminder that if you create and maintain a PACER account, and use it to extract docs for Recap the Law, as long as you stay under $30 in spend per quarter, the requests are free: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work)