Instead, astronomers are now faced with vast quantities of data. (The Hubble Space Telescope alone churns out 2 billion bytes per day.) Traditionally, observations remain the exclusive property of the astronomer who made them for one year.

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Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.

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Org is filling up a 24-terabyte Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) server with case law going back to 1754. (That's a lot of bytes, enough to type out 12 million novels.) Malamud bought some data from Fastcase while building his service, which is available for free on the Web.

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