Utter nonsense?

How can it cost any amount of money that you would consider "significant" to remove data from an export out of presumably a database? Consider how this data would be on those CD's. CSV (common seperated values), excel, SQL, word, tab separated even a propriertary format. Someone must have "burnt" the disks and presumably had an application at their disposal that created the export in the first place so why not JUST EXCLUDE the data!!!