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> removing data not accessed in say five years or a decade is likely to still meet realistic durability guarantees any organization could provide

This is exactly the sort of policy that a "permanent" storage facility must promise never to enact. The whole point of something like this is for stuff you don't need regularly but want to keep forever.

Every year or so I log into the dropbox account that has a copy of my wedding photos in. I don't need to look at them, but I want to keep them.




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