Public Citizen: Federal court using scare tactics to block sharing of public records

It may be harder to modify a proprietary program to do something different, but it's pretty trivial to write a proprietary wrapper that discloses private information in addition to running a proprietary program for the user's expected results. It wouldn't be particularly difficult to make a package that installs Microsoft Office and also a hidden program that uploads any sealed court documents found on the machine to RECAP.

Furthermore, there's no reason that the similarity that humans see between uploading public records (from a particular source) to RECAP and uploading sealed documents (not available from that source) to RECAP would make the modification of a program that does the former to do the latter any easier than making a modification to do the latter to pretty much any program that does pretty much anything.