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.

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        May I ask what the company is? You don’t have to disclose it publicly if you don’t want, I have matrix setup on my profile here.

      • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        what would they do if some user just decides to use more than their “limit”? like hundreds of TB?

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago

          Boot them, most likely. Or eat the cost, and look to shutter the free space/apply limits ASAP.

          Not unlike Amazon Cloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox here. There was someone on the datahoarders Reddit who famously shoved a Petabyte of Data into their Cloud Drive offering, and likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

          • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

            hope they had an offline backup.