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There's an update about a hearing yesterday that has more details about the server setup and what the concerns on both sides were: https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pb...

With the stuff about "corruption" and losing the data if the server is shut down, I wonder if part of the concern is about losing in-memory decryption keys.

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> William Cravens, the attorney representing Iron Mountain, told the judge his client doesn’t know the format of Nine PBS’ materials that were stored by OSS. He expressed concern about whether Nine PBS’ archival material is lumped together with data from other OSS clients. Iron Mountain wants to avoid potentially corrupting the other data, Cravens added.

That's an entirely reasonable concern and explains why Iron Mountain wants OSS on the hook for fulfilling this order rather than trying to yolo it themselves.

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