Lost in Cyberspace: A Cautionary Tale of Data Ownership and Cloud Reliance The recent lawsuit filed by Nine PBS against Iron Mountain Data Centers highlights the murky rules surrounding data ownership and storage in the digital age.
The station's 70 year old archival collection has been inaccessible since its cloud provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), cut off access without warning.
In 2019, Nine PBS contracted with OSS for hardware, software, and cloud storage services, believing it had secured its archives.