That&#x27;s a recipe for building up an &quot;industry&quot; where almost all of the money is expended collecting small amounts of money, while limiting access severely. (There&#x27;s a huge difference in how many people (or computers) will read free text vs. text with even a tiny $$ cost.)<p>Compare to the alternative of uploading one copy to Public.Resource.org or the Internet Archive. It&#x27;s probably cheaper for the courts to do this than to provide copies to 3 non-profits for further sale.<p>Edit: add Public.Resource.org, since they&#x27;re in the forefront of making the Law available for free.