Cloud Fiasco: A Brewing Storm for Public Broadcasting's Digital Legacy The recent lawsuit filed by Nine PBS against Iron Mountain Data Centers has sent shockwaves through the public broadcasting community.
At stake is 50TB of irreplaceable content – including historical broadcasts and local news archives spanning seven decades – which hangs precariously in limbo due to Open Source Storage (OSS) effectively ghosting the station.
The situation highlights the fragility of our collective cultural heritage in the digital age, where cloud storage providers often act as de facto gatekeepers of digital content.