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/

Aw, that’s sad. I loved Mr. Rogers and Dragon Tales.

Fuck cloud storage.

They are still around. This specific incident happened to a local PBS broadcaster, and it is only the local programming that was lost. Still sad, though