Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under
There’s light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS after a judge has cleared the way for it to retrieve archival data and programming from Iron Mountain.
Nine PBS has regained access to 50TB of archival TV data after a recent court ruling. The station had lost access to the data when its cloud storage provider, Open Source Storage (OSS), went out of business. OSS had saved the data on physical servers in Iron Mountain Data Centers, but did not confirm or deny possession of the data.
After filing a lawsuit against OSS, Nine PBS obtained a default judgment stating it owned the data and had the right to possess it. However, Iron Mountain initially blocked any access to the data, claiming OSS owned the physical servers. On August 12, 2026, a Denver judge issued a ruling allowing Nine PBS to retrieve the data from Iron Mountain's Denver data center.
The process will involve a third-party vendor, appointed by Nine PBS, to assist with the retrieval within 30 days. Nine PBS must also pay any overdue storage fees and return any physical devices to Iron Mountain after the data retrieval. Both Nine PBS and Iron Mountain are required to provide progress updates on the data retrieval process by September 14.
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