An uproar recently erupted in the legal community that raises the question of where the market should expect to rely on the government—and where it should look to private industry.

The catalyst for the recent debate was when decades’ worth of public records from five federal courts—the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Seventh, and Eleventh circuits and the Federal Circuit, as well as the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California—were summarily taken offline with less than a paragraph of notice to the public.