[franga2000]

I generally agree and my estimates were of course the bare minumum, but the "we already pay tax" argument doesn't really work since, well, this service clearly isn't tax-funded given the fact that it isn't free. It might be tax-subsidised, which often makes sense for things that are very expensive and have limited usefulness to individual citizens (like many services governments render to businesses are). If we consider accessing court records to be something with very limited usefulness to most people and primarily used by companies to make money (which I do, despite having done it myself on a few occasions), how expensive it actually is to run becomes very important when convincing "the people" to fund it 100%.