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Ask HN: Where is Aaron Swartz's PACER document dump?

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Aaron Swartz purportedly downloaded ~20% of PACER. 760GB or so. Are the documents available online?

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Carl Malamud: “And data started to come in, and come in, and come in. Soon there were 760 GB of PACER docs. About 20 million pages.”

Narrator: “Using information retrieved from the trial libraries, Swartz was conducting massive automated parallel downloading of the PACER system. He was able to acquire more than 2.7 million Federal Court Documents. Almost 20 million pages of text.

https://www.aaronswartzday.org/category/pacer/

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