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Wayback Archives as a Law Tool
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The Wayback Machine's internet archive and Google's cached pages are becoming indispensable tools for some lawyers, especially specialists in intellectual-property law. Dell has used copies of expired websites to get the domain name DellComputersSuck.com transferred to it, the Wall Street Journal reports. EchoStar used Wayback in a case against a Polish TV company. Playboy checks Wayback to look for infringers of its trademark bunny or other images. And Wayback was even used to discredit a witness and reach a mistrial in a Canada murder case."
No you are over thinking about it. Lawyers dont have this long term morality thing that we do, if they do they cannot use it because they could loose their case and money. So example you could sue sears one day about the poor quality of their tools, and the next day you can use the fact that they were useing high quality sears tools the next to help your other defendant from a suit that he was not using dangerious cheap equiptment.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.