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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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[–] 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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