Nine PBS Fights To Recover 70 Years Of Historic Footage After Cloud Storage Provider Allegedly Cuts Off Access

What happens when you suddenly lose access to the cloud? That question is at the center of a lawsuit involving Nine PBS, the St. Louis, MO-based PBS member station, and Open Source Storage (OSS), a cloud storage provider that allegedly cut off access to a massive collection of historical footage spanning more than 70 years. Cloud storage has become an essential tool for organizations and individuals to preserve everything from everyday business files to digital archives, allowing massive amounts of data to be stored on remote servers. Third-party providers host, manage, and secure the data, which can be accessed from virtually anywhere with an internet connection, according to Google Cloud. However, it is not without risk. How Nine PBS’ Cloud Storage Deal Led To A Lawsuit In its lawsuit, filed on July 28, 2026, in a Denver District Court, Nine PBS claims it abruptly lost access to about 50TB of archived data after OSS ceased operations without warning , news outlet Current reports . The collection reportedly includes footage documenting events such as the history of East St. Louis, the COVID-19 pandemic , and the Great Flood of 1993. OSS is said to have relied on information management company Iron Mountain to house the data. After OSS became defunct, Nine PBS’ files were effectively stranded at an Iron Mountain data center. Iron Mountain is the target of the lawsuit and has reportedly declined to release the materials directly to the station, citing OSS’ ow…