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Attachments are considered files, and generally courts don't react too friendly whenever they find out that you were trying to be clever and use some sort of "l

• dleslie 10y ago
  That's what I figured. I don't think it's unlikely that among the thousands of emails Carmack downloaded on his last day, that some of those which involved working with an external developer would have included such attachments.
  • Hydraulix989 10y ago
    Yeah, that's a detail for the courts to resolve -- whether Carmack was downloading the emails Hillary Clinton style or not.
    • R00sterIllusi0n 10y ago
      I think it is safe to say the emails have nothing to do with stealing code. He copied his email history so he could personally have it. Lots of people do this when leaving a job, even when they are not supposed to. It is your correspondence for the last X number of years, you want a personal copy. Carmack would have a greater incentive to copy the emails since he clearly was blurring the lines between personal work and private work while working for id which was inherited by zenimax when they bought id.
      • Hydraulix989 10y ago
        Sure, and that's probably part of the reason why emails aren't considered intellectual property.