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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This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives.
  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    This isn’t all of PBS, just Nine PBS out of St. Louis, MO.

    Like the majority of PBS stations, most of their content isn’t original. They broadcast tons of stuff made by WGBH, for example. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that only 6 years of original video was produced at this station in the last 50 years.