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Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits?

Posted by Cliff on from the inflation-ain't-got-nothing-on-this dept.

Rational asks: "I've heard of Everquest accounts sold for upwards of a thousand dollars... Considering that what is actually for sale is just an username and password, which generally comes up to less than 20 bytes in total, this amounts to over $50 per byte. What are the most expensive pieces of information that you have heard of, in dollars per byte? Perhaps satellite pictures? The Human genome?"

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  1. Stupid Question by gad_zuki! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You're not paying for the login, you're also paying for the character files which are how big? The login could be changed and you would get the same results, but if you change the character files around you will most definately not get the same results.

    Continue with the inevitable "I paid big bucks for some antiquted OS/Software back in the day!"