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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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[–] 7 points 2 weeks ago*

They should have released them as torrents, us data hoarders would happily seed some of it! It's probably mostly on torrent trackers anyway.

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    [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Couldn't the cloud company just sell them the drive(s) their data was on? Since they're going out of business and all. I mean what else are they gonna do with that data?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Afaik liquidation requires certain garantees of "highest price" like inventory auctions.

    Regardless, a deal or notification could and should have been made.

    Just goes to show the cloud is someone else's computer. A computer the someone else can do anything with, like declare bankrupcy and sell off.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    So someone else bought the drives at a higher price.

    So they could have been advised that the drives were being sold at auction and given the opportunity to download the data.

    I would say they should not be selling someone else's data at auction, but then again, that's how Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others operate.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Exactly. The right and responsible thing to do is give users access to their data: give notice, offer a competitor's similar service or offer to sell the drives to them.

    But reaponsibility is a high ask. Just start the bancrupcy procedure, sell everything off and be done with it is what most folks do.

    The possibilities are there, but most won't follow through.

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    [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    50TB isn't even that much for a large company. This smells like pure incompetence.

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