Posted by Uncommon Sense on April 26, 2007 at 09:53:47 (EST):
In Reply to: Re: Access to County Records- Look at Allegheny County posted by Greg on April 26, 2007 at 03:40:10 (EST):
TANSTAAFL is the first lesson you should have learned in a simple Econ class.
There aint no such thing as free lunch.
Or in this case, there aint no such thing as a free records. Posting records on the internet and storing them costs money. Your being foolish pretending that there is no costs for doing such a thing. On top of that you just prove my point the more you jabber on. You think it's fine for paper products to charge a fee because there is a costs to it and a product provided. However you living in make believe land thinking that there is no costs to putting informtion into a database and stored for the whole world to see. Somebody is getting paid to post the informtion to the database. You have to pay somebody to maintain such database. Someobdy is getting paid to create a software taht enables you to search the database. And, you don't just get to put the database online for free. Somebody gets paid to store it for you. And last of all, somebody has to pay for all those servers keeping the informtion up.
Greg, if your not going to find the time to go to the courthouse and find the record, then it's really not that imporant. Again, your thinking that here is no fixed costs, labor, and other costs in having the informtion online is just, foolish.
FYI, the journal is $1 a week or $40 for a year.