The minidisk could have become the digital media if Sony weren't so afraid of piracy. It was relatively cheap, rewritable, couldn't get scratched and had (for t

The minidisk could have become the digital media if Sony weren't so afraid of piracy. It was relatively cheap, rewritable, couldn't get scratched and had (for the time) very large capacity. Instead we got single-write cds (no one bothered with rewritable) until finally usb sticks made optical obsolete.