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Nine PBS is suing Iron Mountain over 50TB and 70 years of archive after its storage vendor vanished
St. Louis station Nine PBS stored its archive with Open Source Storage since 2019; when it went to renew on March 6, 2026 the company stopped responding and access was cut. OSS had housed the data in an Iron Mountain Denver data center, which first agreed to hand it over then reversed, arguing OSS owned the stored data — prompting a July 28 lawsuit and a Colorado court ruling that Nine PBS has a right to its data. The lesson for anyone with a single cloud custodian: contractual data ownership does not equal physical access when the intermediary disappears.
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