I'm reasonably familiar with this case, and there's a book about it called De Broncode by Eric Smit. I haven't read it as my Dutch is extremely limited. It's

I'm reasonably familiar with this case, and there's a book about it called De Broncode by Eric Smit. I haven't read it as my Dutch is extremely limited. It's been my understanding that his invention involved analogue processing (think along the lines of an electromagnetic frequency being used to transmit a data point, rather than a single bit). The article suggests it was supposed to be able to generate all possible movies but that looks like a straw man to me. There are a finite number of movies and you could restrict this further to the top (for example) 1000 movies. There's a patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/NL1009908C2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/NL1009908C2/en It's in English but as it's new to me I haven't read it yet either. Jan Sloot died the day before he was due to release details of his invention to investors. The timing seems suspicious. The obvious conclusions might be either suicide in anticipation of being exposed as a charlatan, or (if you're prone to conspiracy theories) murder by someone acting on behalf of companies who had invested in digital compression, but he died of a heart attack, i.e. natural causes, though no autopsy was performed, despite relatives requesting one. I don't know the known state of his health was at the time he died.