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The magic of public-private partnerships strikes again. Like most of the time, this will probably be held for some kind of extortionist legal ransom. We just l

The magic of public-private partnerships strikes again. Like most of the time, this will probably be held for some kind of extortionist legal ransom. We just love handing our stuff over to bad-faith third-parties in the name of some kind of imagined freedom. Just can't get enough of it. Public infrastructure, national archives, city services, we just seem to be completely deer-in-the-headlights when they pull this stuff on the daily... So here we go again. We blindly trust in private parties always magically acting in good faith when there's billions on the table incentivizing them not to. We've been doing it like this for 40 years and it hasn't worked, but I'm sure our ideological commitments will bend reality eventually. This is your money btw.

dgoldstein0 1mo ago
Pbs is offering to pay for the recovery, but the company who supposedly has the data basically went non responsive. Honestly this sounds like a mishandled going out of business where the company left with the assets was not prepared to deal with the customers at all.
- kristopolous 1mo ago
  We'll see. It's crazy that we still have lots of institutions that would have taken this seriously. County libraries, city hall records, large public universities. It should have been like "hey, UNC Chapel Hill" or "Los Angeles County" take care of this. I mean maybe things like that happen, like UTexas just loses multiple shelves mysteriously in their special collections, but I've never heard of it. I just hate when ideological commitments shove reasonable solutions like this off the table