Now that the LHC is coming online, research organizations around the world are itching to get their hands on the data. Sharing some experimental data might not sound very hard, but there's actually quite of lot of complexity in getting that much data out of the collider and distributed to all the first and second tier sites. This short film explains it pretty well.
By the way, if you haven't seen the Large Hadron Rap yet, you should check it out:
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