Data Archive & eDiscovery Laws

I was looking for easy and cheap way to archive data when I found this new law on a software company's web site;

"The amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect on Dec.1, 2006, small business, including those run out of home offices, must now be prepared, at any time, to furnish "electronically stored information" that could pertain to civil litigations involving their companies".

The site that had this new itme posted sell a product called Datacatch Librarian, which we bought. It catalogs your removable media and then you can search for archived files stored on removable media within Windows using the standard Windows search; you even browse the thumbnails of photos stored on your DVD’s. It manages the physical media in exactly the same way your put a Word document in a newly created folder, you locate your discs in a storage container icon on your desktop AND it tells you what slot their in.

Anyway, its not a bad option considering the new laws for simple and easy archive / eDiscovery management. We did look at online archiving, but its a hell of a lot cheaper and easier to archive to gold quality DVD or Blu-ray than paying 9.99$ per month to store one DVD of data online.