Just another completely foreseeable reason the "cloud" is dumb and users of the cloud umm dare I say it... deserve what they get:
"After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to 50TB of TV shows, videos, and other data dating back 70 years."
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Now that said I'm glad PBS is hopefully not going to lose their unique irreplaceable data, I don't wish that on anyone really, but I think the more critical thing to remember here is that PBS sued a third party company that merely rented space to a cloud hosting provider. The data center of which has contracts with the cloud hosting provider. It probably does not own or control the servers. Forcing them to provide access to a clients systems (the cloud hosting provider) sets a really bad precedent. The data center should have been included in the lawsuit, but the cloud provider is the one with the liability and the costs should not be on the data center.
"Iron Mountain's spokesperson said the company only provides physical infrastructure, such as the building, network connectivity, power, and environmental controls. 'Our customers rent space for their servers and other hardware. These are the client's assets. We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers because they belong to our customers,' the company said.
If it granted 'unauthorized access to third-party hardware without a court order,' Iron Mountain said the company would violate basic data privacy protocols, breach its contract with OSS, and 'potentially [expose] confidential data belonging to other clients of OSS.'"
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in reply to Nanook • • •lol, yea, I was thinking the same thing. One former PBS worker said that it's probably the result of a single guy for a single local station who was in charge of the tapes and insufficient funding. Apparently his local station lost everything in I think the 90s when the place they stored stuff burned down.
The counter to that though of course is that the cloud storage probably cost more and the legal costs even if trivial were probably still in excess of even implementing a simple consumer focused solution that isn't excessively over-complicated. Like, simply making copies of the data and storing it off-site.