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Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial
Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker Rambus has been found guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the Judge has denied the FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of proving its innocence" instead.'
they just kept them in memory...and turned the power off.
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Hmmm, I wonder if Enron could get away with saying the same thing at trial. "I'm sorry, your honor, but we always destroy our evidence, it's our normal business practice."
Abstract - A process by which documents, which encompasses the plurality of both physical and "virtual" assembledges of characters or images, are converted into a non usable format either via the physical process of shredding, disassembly via the use of prehensile appendages, use of the 'delete' or 'rm' utilities, editing with Microsoft Word, or any other method that would make said document unreadable to any law enforcement agency.
It's company policy to destoy documents when getting sued -- duh.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
OK, so it's your regular retention policy to shred documents that incriminate you... big surprise. And when did the shredding begin? As soon as the IP claim was filed. Very sleazy.
Can I bum a sig? I left mine at the office.
You mean like whether or not you have weapons of mass destruction, right? :)
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-E. W. Dijkstra
Of course the govt could always enforce a "100% document retention policy"
Yeah, but that would be "anal-retentive."
Nothing says "We're innocent" like destroying evidence
They're Ram-Busssssted!
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas