From: BorderGoogle versus Smart Guy On A Message Board is a pretty even fight for credibility
I googled "Jan Sloot" and all I got was a bunch of sweedish language crap and the page I already linked....which ripped his whole invention apart as a fraud/crackpot attempt at the impossible.
Even though Sloot claimed that one kilobyte was enough to store any movie regardless of its length, the question is warranted whether a system as defined by the SDCS is possible for movies of a limited (but realistic) length. The answer is no. One kilobyte is 1024 bytes, and a byte can take 256 different values. With a code of one kilobyte, to represent any movie up to 90 minutes in length, on average a byte must be able to distinguish between all possible sequences of about 5 seconds. Can a sequence of 5 seconds of any movie at all be identified with a number between 0 and 255? Of course not.Why are the prototype and source code destroyed? Either family did it to protect his estate from litigation over defrauding investors, or the Pieper guy did it himself to prevent the destruction of his reputation and credibility.
EDIT: Even Manabyte doesn't believe this, and he'll believe anything