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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One of America's largest data set is hidden behind a paywall. For years, activists have hacked though bureaucracy to liberate the law, court cases, and judicial proceedings only to be told to pay up.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Join us as we celebrate Law Day! A day of "cultivating respect for law" and demanding its liberation which is "vital to the democratic way of life." (<A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Day_%28United_States%29" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Wikipedia</A>)</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For Friday, 1 May, Civic Hall,<A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="http://public.resource.org/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Public.Resource.<SPAN>org</SPAN></A>, BetaNYC, and Legal Hackers NYC, join forces to showcase<A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="http://yo.yourhonor.org/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">YO.YOURHONOR.<SPAN>ORG</SPAN></A>and host a screening of "<A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet%27s_Own_Boy:_The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz" REL="nofollow">The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz</A>."</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><STRONG>Schedule of Events:</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">* Happy Hour: 6:30 to 7:00</DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">* Introductory remarks: 7:00 to 7:20</DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">- Council Member Ben Kallos</DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">* Film Screening: 7:30 to 9:10</DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">* Post Film Discussion: 9:10 to 9:40</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><STRONG>About<A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="http://yo.yourhonor.org/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Yo.YourHonor.org</A></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="http://yo.yourhonor.org/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Yo.YourHonor.<SPAN>Org</SPAN></A>is a campaign to change the way the U.S. federal courts distribute their proceedings in thePublic Access to Electronic Court Records (PACER) system. This is a computer system that publishes U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents. The system is run by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which reported in 2012 that the system had 1.4 million users with access to over 500 million case file documents.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To use the PACER system, a person must furnish their name, address, date of birth, a valid credit card, and a valid U.S. taxpayer ID. The charging algorithm is complex, but is essentially $0.10/page with a maximum of $3 per document. Additional charges are levied for docket reports in HTML, audio files, and searches of the PACER Case Locator.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Two colleagues of the PACER Recycling Program took it to heart. Steve Schultze wrote a rudimentary crawler to use the free access service in the libraries, and Aaron Swartz applied that crawler to recover 2,706,431 documents totalling 19,856,160 pages (753.9 GB).</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><A STYLE="color: #1155cc;" HREF="http://yo.yourhonor.org/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow">Yo.YourHonor.<SPAN>Org</SPAN></A>wants the Chief Justice and the Congress to tear down this wall of their own accord because they see the new is knocking on every door and window.</DIV>
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<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><STRONG>About The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV STYLE="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This film depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer, and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Variety described it as "A spellbinding portrait of the Internet whiz kid's life and political convictions."The Hollywood Reporter said it was an "Excellent newbie-friendly account of a story that rocked the Web's cognoscenti."The Daily Telegraph said that "Knappenberger's film is a heavy watch, mostly using talking heads and footage of Swartz before his death to tell a story which comes to question the state of civil liberties in the US."</DIV>
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<P><STRONG>Civic Hall</STRONG> is New York City's new home for the civic innovation movement. We use technology, open data, and networks to make our communities, cities, and government work more effectively.</P>
<P><STRONG>BetaNYC</STRONG> is a nonpartisan good government community dedicated to making technology, design, and data work for all New Yorkers. We work to ensure technology, design, and data empowers individuals and local communities, provides for an honest and efficient government, and builds a civicallyengaged technology ecosystem.</P>
<P><STRONG>Legal Hackers</STRONG> is a global movement of lawyers, policymakers, technologists, and academics who explore and develop creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. Through local meetups, hackathons, and workshops, Legal Hackers spot issues and opportunities where technology can improve and inform the practice of law and where law, legal practice, and policy can adapt to rapidly changing technology.</P>
<P><STRONG>Public.Resource.Org</STRONG> is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit and your contributions are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Checks may be sent to the above address, or you may use our PayPal account for donations as well. Thank you for your support.</P>
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