Backing up the "master archive" is critical! The "derivative" files shared out aren't so critical, as they can be reconstructed from the "master archive". An example is MPEG-2 will preserve videos at high quality, but with large file sizes.

I agree that backing up the master archive is critical, but for video that archive should be the original file created by the video capture system, preferably a non-lossy archival format such as FFV1 or HuffYUV in order to reduce or eliminate generation loss and retain all the original data and metadata for future reprocessing. MPEG-2 tosses away potentially valuable information in order to reduce file sizes and is therefore better as a publishing format than as an archival format.

Common 4K cameras would fill up this card in a little over one hour of recording time.

Confirmed.

This is actually quite useful if you're on WiFi or have more data than minutes remaining on your plan. I'm on T-Mobile's $30/month unlimited data + 100 minutes talk plan, so if Google's VoIP works as well as Skype, I'll be making most of my calls from Hangouts.

Except when your workplace has a policy of deleting cookies daily which makes 2-step authentication a hassle when you have to do it every day.

I think you'll find less resistance from me or anybody else if you focus on things that elicit a positive image...like pushing increased research funds for cleaner burning engines, real fuel production alternatives like algae. Things that benefit everyone, AND reduce environmental impact.

You're hoping for some future technology to save us all--a deus ex machina. But there are things we can do now. For example, eliminate subsidies and favoritism for automobiles.

Oh, but this would hurt Big Oil and people who love to drive, so it wouldn't benefit everyone.

You can't please everyone all the time, so why should we even try?

It is why Cities have always struggled. To many people to close to each other. The wealthy always purchase enough space to make themselves comfortable. However the poor can not and once you get so many people pressed together they fight.

I think the fighting is because downtown areas heavily subsidize the suburbs (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4) and so the inner city poor are getting fed up because their money is leaving their neighborhoods and is spent on subsidizing the middle and upper class lifestyles. And because the middle class prevents economic mobility by keeping the poor out of middle class neighborhoods.

And how much will each customer be reimbursed?

Oops, that's 0.47 TB for $19.45, which is $41.38 per terabyte.

Here is 1.25 TB for $22.95, which is $18.36 per terabyte. You won't be able to fit 160 TB of that in a 4U enclosure, but maybe in a filing cabinet.

...I have 160TB in a 4U enclosure which cost something like 20k just for the hardware.

That's $125 per terabyte. Here is 4.7TB for $19.45, which is $4.14 per terabyte.