This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I know Wikimedia is getting deserved shit for what they're doing now, but allowing anyone to download the entire shebang means it's far less likely it will be lost in the future.
If PBS wasn't forced to make money they could have done the same with their content. The only reason they needed to control it was because they needed to sell it.
I'll store PBS's content on my Plex server if they want. I'm sure I've got 50Tb free
This is PBS St Louis. So get ready to store hundreds of hours of this:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOBToc54vT5C1tdWJuXBFFD1eh7DCI4CR
That's some bullshit.
I wonder if there’s something that can be done. Sure the company may be out of business, but their hard drives somewhere that still has the data on it, right?
Reading the article explains the article.
Iron Mountain says the data is currently safe, but that OSS owns the hardware that contains the data so they cannot hand it over. The lawsuit is for an injunction to prevent deletion and retrieve their data.
The data is there. Seems to company was just a middle man business between them and Iron Mountain, which I am pretty sure is one of those "pretty big companies a lot of people don't know about."
For how long?
Investors will liquidate.
In theory yes
