> The problem is that this took years of legal work to get to the obvious outcome to make Nine PBS whole.

Not years. This whole "saga" has been going on for 5 months, and the suit against Iron Mountain was only filed on 28 July, so it just took weeks to come to this current arrangement.

EDIT: Toned down the comment. Leaving the rest, though, since I can't delete it with the reply below.

I changed it.