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Considering that digital bights aren't really physical and therefore don't weigh anything "worth there weight in gold" doesn't really make sense here. Sorry, I know it's a metaphor but I just had to.
No worries I have my achthually... Moments as well. Though here's a counter perspective. The bytes have to be pulled out of abstraction space and actually mapped to a physical medium capable of storing huge amounts of informational states like a hard drive. It takes genius STEM engineer level human cognition and lots of compute power to create a dataset like WA. This makes the physical devices housing the database unique almost one of a kind objects with immense potential value from a business and consumer use. How much would a wealthy competing business owner pay for a drive containing such lucrative trade secrets assuming its not leaked? Probably more than a comparative weighed brick of gold, but that's just fun speculation.