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I imagine the US government could find the people & money to make as many photocopies as necessary. The government runs on paper.


Megaupload has 25 petabytes of data, according to the company complaining about having to host it. There was a company at one time who could put 50KB of binary data on a fax page [1]. 25 petabytes / 50 KB =~ 550 trillion sheets of paper. Heck, let's let them double-side it, so it's only 225 trillion sheets of paper.

Even the United States Federal Government would choke on trying to produce that.

[1]: http://faxauthority.com/3d-fax/


I don't want to go into specific details, but I am aware of this defence being used for real about 10 years ago in a similar kind of case.




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