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Originally Posted by Valloric
This is absolutely ridiculous.
You can just overwrite those ones and zeros, and they'll be gone just the same. Run any disk defragmenter and it will probably overwrite those platter clusters.
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There are data recovery techniques that can get those ones and zeros back even if you overwrite them.
However, I wasn't really being serious though. Just pointing out how silly the whole comparison is when trying to think of digital data in physical property terms. That's why all sorts of nonsense happens when we try to apply laws and/or business models from physical property to digital data. You're right, it is absolutely ridiculous.