I highly doubt it was well.. I remember a guy by the name of Peter St. George
who claimed he cound get 100:1 ratios.. I posted about it here a long time ago.

as it (of course) turned out.. he was scamming to try to get investors.
his site.. http://www.zeosync.com/ is now nothing but a page under construction.

here's an article that talked about him..
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,86986,00.asp

the guys at slashodot did a lot of talking about this guy and compression in general
http://slashdot.org/science/02/01/08/137246.shtml