It would be "interesting" if Microsoft's lawyers analyzed the law, concluded they were guilty of violating British law, and plead guilty at trial.<p>If Microsoft were as concerned about their data integrity as they seem to have been goaded into, after learning that pipes between their data centers were monitored by the NSA, you might reasonably think that they were concerned about the integrity of <i>all</i> their data, including that data in other countries that the NSA compels them to share.<p>I think pleading guilty to cases like this would be enough of a shock to the system that governments, including the US, would be forced to rethink their clever scheme to break the internet and treat the world's citizens as enemies.