One result: Companies settle cases because discovery would cost more or because they can't risk marching toward trial without knowing what damaging e-mails might lurk in their files.
Clearly, somebody realized that amateur programmers using the Kinect for cool, creative projects was great advertising for Microsoft, while marchingin with jackboots and cease-and-desist orders wasn't.
So go ahead and pick 14th seeded Boise State to knock off Louisville in the first round of the East regional, but don't expect them to keep marching onward.