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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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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332594/pbs-broadcaster-loses-access-to-50tb-of-data-comprising-70-years-of-tv-history-after-con

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[–] 283 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Piracy is media preservation

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  • [–] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I plead the fifth on that. But how come no backup on this. I am pretty sure they could got at least 50 people to get 1 tb hard drives so their data wouldn't go this route. And probably more since PBS shaped whole generations of kids and adults into better people.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    15x8TB drives gives you about 72TB in raidz2, for about £4k in disks, add a server for say £2k

    So by not spending £6k they lost everything, they spent $19million on IT in 2025

    Someone fucked up

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  • [+] -57 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 127 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Oh sweet child you have a rather myopic view of the weird shit pirates find and their willingness to data hoard.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    I once put a ton of effort into tracking down episodes and information of a random Spanish Telanovella I caught on the Spanish channel once. Including recording and digitizing episodes.

    I don't even speak Spanish at all at the time, the show just seemed interesting.

    I've lso converted a bunch of old Zines from a UK school to PDF because a musician I like was involved and the only copies were behind some weird paywall magazine site. Bunch of print screens and a script to crop double pages to single pages then merge them together.

    Maybe I should try putting them somewhere like archive.org.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I found a bunch of obscure movies from the 1930s and 1940s when a friend asked for some. I'm still seeding them. And I do mean obscure, not like Citizen Kane or something that everyone knows.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The private tracker I use have random stuff like reality shows for Norway television, all the Olympics transmissions, and BlueRay rips of movies from the 30's. There's also the popular stuff, but you would be amazed by the random stuff people upload.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    We’re not young people, your original comment is just wrong and makes no sense. Or tells us what YOU preserve.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I'm not completely wrong, it's a joke! Isn't it funny how I got all of my facts incorrect? Upvotes, please!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Wat... The lone seeder is elevated to mythical status in torrent culture. People take great lengths to preserve old content - whether that's by seedboxing, ripping physical content, or even the more backend stuff like trackers who have entire systems devoted to "reseed requests".

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    Deleting a torrent is probably the most heartbreaking thing i can imagine. My most prized possession is a ratio 1.00 torrent from 2014 that was 0.00 until 2021.

    Rechecking, it is now at 2.00 which makes me unreasonably happy

    Edit for more happiness: A copy of Monkey Shines (1988) that took me about 14 months to download is now at a 2913 ratio (since February)

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