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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

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[–] 238 points 2 years ago (65 children)

You can’t abuse something that has no limit. Stop calling things unlimited and then blaming users when they are not.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I read somewhere about someone who took a zip file, copied it and zipped it with the copy over and over again until the file size ballooned to petabytes. I would consider that sort of pointless use of storage to be abuse.

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