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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 (current.org)
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks ago

The first time I heard about cloud storage, I wondered why anyone would store their stuff with a third party, for reasons EXACTLY like this. This is the exact scenario I thought of.

And while we're talking about this specific case, presumably all the other customers of that cloud storage company list all their stuff, too.