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First of all, there is more to data storage than selling movies and music to consumers. This technology will be invaluable to corporations where current data storage is literally limited to the size of the building they have to store it in. I've been inside the RG&E building in Rochester NY and have seen the way they store data. They have a huge air tight room full floor to cieling of tape disks that a robotic arm in the center of the room can grab and insert into tape drives to be accessed by their computer system. Their data storage capacity falls just short of 60 terabytes. With this technology they can replace that entire system with a handfull of tiny plastic discs. Also, have you ever tried to backup dual 250gb hard drives to DVD's. I can tell you it is a huge pain in the a$$, and just think how big hard drives will be in those days. (To store the 1.5 terabyte Unreal Tournament 2012... lol)
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