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

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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
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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 channel is the ultimate owner of the stored data.

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