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[Post Toasties]

Cool. Wonder how this will shake out with the nanomachine terabit rewriteable memory.

[Dimensio]

This just in. The RIAA and the MPAA are demanding that Congress pass legislation banning this kind of technology, citing piracy concerns.

[ctdonath2]

Just for some context:

One hour of a movie, at full 35mm film resolution (not "digital cinema") theater quality with no compression, takes 1 terabyte of storage.

With lossless compression, a full 2-3 hour movie takes 1TB.
With mild lossy compression (you won't notice the difference), a whole theater-quality movie could fit on 2-3 of these 100GB discs.