[malchow]

Is data stripping the new asset stripping?

[ucaetano]

Not really, data is replicable, assets aren't.

So you can buy a company, strip all of its data, and resell for a similar value than you bought it for. You can't do that with asset stripping.

But, on the other hand, if the data striping happens again and again, the company becomes worthless, even if it still has all of the assets and data.

Ah, the wonders of the information economy...

[malchow]

Data is replicable, but any data set large enough to be globally useful has a time bounding function. A snapshot of the whole world today is worth less than perfect information just about how humans drive over 200 years / 1.752e+6 hours of observation. Don't you think?

[ucaetano]

Sure. But that doesn't have anything to do with my comment.

As information goes, [A, B] is more valuable than [A], and the value of [A] declines with how many people/companies have A.

[prepend]

It would explain a lot.