PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332594/pbs-broadcaster-loses-access-to-50tb-of-data-comprising-70-years-of-tv-history-after-con

current.org/2026/08/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data/

Piracy is media preservation

Only if you’re OK with popularity surviving titles so that our media history becomes Thanos and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Oh sweet child you have a rather myopic view of the weird shit pirates find and their willingness to data hoard.