Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.

    • Mane25@feddit.ukEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      If they were just honest about it and say “this is expensive so we need to put the prices up”, I would have a lot more respect for that.

    • yum13241@lemm.eeEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      You can DDOS using an “unlimited” VPS, and DDOS the same provider. Is that abuse? Of course it is. You can’t expect a for profit to allow people to upload petabytes of junk all at once.

      • eee@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        It depends on the ToS. DDoSing might be considered unreasonable use.

        But if you’re using VPS to stream 4K content 24/7, that would be heavy and reasonable use.

        Similarly, if I take the unlimited Dropbox plan and resell it, that’s probably against the ToS.

        If I’m uploading 50TB of blu ray rips for backups, that’s… Heavy use but entirely acceptable based on what they’re advertising.

        • yum13241@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          For your last sentence, Dropbox can’t tell whether those are legitimate backups that the DMCA gives you the right to, or rips from a piracy site. Uploading data that’s all 1’s is just dumb and is designed to “test” the server, in the same way a teenager might test their stepdad.

        • yum13241@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          You shouldn’t try to benchmark some random server by uploading and downloading files that consist of the bytes FF repeatedly. Store all the crap you want, just don’t ruin it for others.