[Gllug] BBC on Microsoft DRM in new Outlook

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Doug Winter wrote:

> Within the government there may be regulations.   As far as businesses
> go, some forms of correspondence have to be kept - directors expenses
> need to be kept for a billion years in a lead box or something, but in
> general afaik there are no requirements on businesses to keep general
> correspondence.  
> 
> Microsoft have apparently started destroying all emails after six
> months, to avoid the document discovery problems they had during their
> anti-trust antics.  Can't find a reference to this though, so I may have
> imagined it.

According to the earlier BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3205080.stm

"Destroying the e-mails completely would create legal trouble, because in 
the United States deleting e-mails is a federal offence, regarded in a 
similar light to shredding documents. 

Earlier this year, brokers Morgan Stanley were fined $1.65m for failing to 
keep e-mail records."

This would seem to indicate that if MS are doing as you suggest they could 
be digging a tunnel into prison for some of their execs. Then again 
they've already bought off the US govt once already during the current 
term so perhaps they'll stay bought.

Jason Clifford
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