This paper is from a few years ago, but I think that for folks who aren't quite as in to the net/info security side of things, it's better to think of "rubber hose attacks" as a polite way to say "having to fight too many subpoenas from a more wealthy adversary".

Hopefully doesn't apply to your businesses, but it sure delayed a lot of things in the 80s and 90s before the EFF/CDT/and so on helped settle a lot of the law that we take for granted now.

(No I do not work for the EFF, CDT, or any other TLA. I just think that programmers and painters both need to be cognizant of copyright)