Then you know that they provide public information to members of the legal profession and others for a fee. Thomson Corporation is a very profitable corporation, even today. Lawyers gladly pay those fees as part of their cost of doing business, and sometimes pass on that cost to their clients.
So what is it about that model that makes it an abhorrent concept, as you've suggested, to suggest that Thomson Corporation pay a reasonable fee for the information that they are going to resell for profit to business organizations? Why is that abhorrent?