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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?"

5 of 505 comments (clear)

  1. Shareware registration keys by Captoo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Shareware registration keys can be pretty expensive, especially if you buy a 1000 license key.

  2. Deep Thought by joeflies · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sure must have cost a lot of money to build the ultimate computer, considered its total output resulted in a two digit number.

  3. 42 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant


    1 byte.

  4. 42 by wildsurf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    42. The answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

    One byte can contain it, and Douglas Adams made millions off it. (One has to wonder, of course, how much the actual question would be worth...?)

    --
    Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
  5. I'm sure the mice would answer... by marhar · · Score: 1, Redundant

    42!