https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=invention+suppression https://ask.slashdot.org/story/17/06/09/0025250/ask-slashdot-what-is-your-vi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLp5gS9h9UI https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/3gdxin/sloot_digital_codi... http://www.piedpiper.com/ http://jansloot.telcomsoft.nl/Sources-1/More/CaptainCosmos/Not_Compression.h... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=secret+patents A Dutch electronics engineer named Jan Sloot spent 20 years of his life trying to compress broadcast quality video down to kilobytes -- not megabytes or gigabytes (the link in this story contains an 11 minute mini-documentary on Sloot). His CODEC, finalized in the late 1990s, consisted of a massive 370Mb decoder engine that likely contained some kind of clever system for procedurally generating just about any video frame or audio sample desired -- fractals or other generative approaches may have been used by Sloot. The "instruction files" that told this decoder what kind of video frames, video motion and audio samples to generate were supposedly only kilobytes in size -- kind of like small MIDI files being able to generate hugely complex orchestral scores when they instruct a DAW software what to play. Jan Sloot died of a heart attack two days before he was due to sign a technology licensing deal with a major electronics company. The Sloot Video Compression system source code went missing after his death and was never recovered, prompting some to speculate that ***Jan Sloot was killed because his ultra-efficient video compression and transmission scheme threatened everyone profiting*** from storing, distributing and transmitting large amounts of digital video data. I found out about Sloot Compression only after watching some internet videos on "invention suppression." So the question is: is it technically possible that Sloot Compression, with its huge decoder file and tiny instruction files, actually worked? According to Reddit user PinGUY, the Sloot Digital Coding System may have been the inspiration for Pied Piper, a fictional data compression algorithm from HBO's Silicon Valley. Here's some more information about the Sloot Digital Coding System for those who are interested.