Federal court's initial worry of document-sharing plugin is off base, report says

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Ryan Singel of Wired reports that a federal court spokesman says that RECAP, a Firefox plug-in that says it will help create free federal court documents (whereas you have to pay 8 cents a copy now on PACER), could make sealed court records viewable.

But one of the guys who wrote the code for the plug-in says that won't happen, because lawyers use a different program when they upload documents, and RECAP doesn't work with that program.

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