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PBS broadcaster sues Iron Mountain over 70 years of lost TV history

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A PBS broadcaster is at risk of losing 70 years of its historical TV programming, totaling 50TB of data, after its cloud storage vendor, Open Source Storage (OSS), ceased operations. Nine PBS has lost access to its data and is now suing OSS and its data center host, Iron Mountain, to ensure the preservation of these archives. The situation is complicated by claims of fraud from an individual who purported to acquire OSS, leaving the broadcaster in a precarious legal and data-preservation battle. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for robust data backup and vendor management in digital archiving, especially for historical content.

RANK_REASON This is a story about a data loss incident and subsequent legal action involving a cloud storage vendor and a broadcaster, not a core AI development or release.

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PBS broadcaster sues Iron Mountain over 70 years of lost TV history

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Tom's Hardware TIER_1 English(EN) · Jowi Morales ·

    PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

    Public broadcaster Nine PBS is in trouble after its cloud storage provider went out of business and it now can't access more than 50TB of archival data. The data center hosting the files can't simply turn over the files, as it's legally owned by another entity, even if the channe…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider "We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain

    📰 PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider "We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars. 📰 Source: Ars Technica 🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/pbs-station-fears-losing…

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