The hoaxter who claimed he could fit a whole movie in one kilobyte

In 1995, a Dutch television repairman named Jan Sloot claimed he had cracked something impossible: a way to store an entire feature film in a single kilobyte of data, less than the plain text of this post. The Sloot Digital Coding System defied a basic law of information theory, which says that much unique video simply cannot be squeezed into that few bits. — Read the rest

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