Concern about that makes lots more sense. If your trusted couriers are moving some bits as part of a ratchet mechanism or something I'm onboard. But the volumes involved then are tiny, whereas the story beat is about a large volume of data.
It's the difference between stealing Bearer Bonds which you can notionally insist are arbitrarily valuable despite the modest amount in Die Hard†, and stealing literal Gold Bars in Die Hard with a Vengeance which is silly because we know how valuable each bar is and they're much too heavy for the heist to actually work as depicted.
† Die Hard is set after bearer bonds don't make sense for non-crooks and thus didn't exist for crooks to steal because their tax treatment changed, however the novel Die Hard is based on was set before these tax changes so it did make sense when it was written.
Concern about that makes lots more sense. If your trusted couriers are moving some bits as part of a ratchet mechanism or something I'm onboard. But the volumes involved then are tiny, whereas the story beat is about a large volume of data.
It's the difference between stealing Bearer Bonds which you can notionally insist are arbitrarily valuable despite the modest amount in Die Hard†, and stealing literal Gold Bars in Die Hard with a Vengeance which is silly because we know how valuable each bar is and they're much too heavy for the heist to actually work as depicted.
† Die Hard is set after bearer bonds don't make sense for non-crooks and thus didn't exist for crooks to steal because their tax treatment changed, however the novel Die Hard is based on was set before these tax changes so it did make sense when it was written.