Is OpenSource / Crypto Murderable? By who? Why? For how much?

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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=invention+suppression
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/17/06/09/0025250/ask-slashdot-what-is-your-view-on-sloot-compression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLp5gS9h9UI
https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/3gdxin/sloot_digital_coding_system_a_revolutionary/
http://www.piedpiper.com/
http://jansloot.telcomsoft.nl/Sources-1/More/CaptainCosmos/Not_Compression.htm
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.