Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits

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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits
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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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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.

Then put an * and say that there are a couple well documented exceptions, like zip bombing or don’t call it unlimited and call it up to 100TB for x dollars.

Aaaand? It's like if phone companies called dial-up abuse.