Nine PBS, a public television station in St. Louis, has sued information management company Iron Mountain Data Centers to recover over 50 terabytes of archival data spanning 70 years of the station's history. The data was originally stored with vendor Open Source Storage (OSS), which went defunct and cut off access without warning in March. Nine PBS discovered OSS had a separate storage relationship with Iron Mountain, but Iron Mountain has refused to return the data, citing OSS's technical ownership of the physical servers housing it. A court previously granted Nine PBS a default judgment against OSS confirming its ownership rights, but Iron Mountain still declined to release the archives, prompting the new Colorado lawsuit and a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent deletion or alteration of the data.
