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Re:OneDrive has stopped working on non-NTFS drives by papaf on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:04AM (#14716208)
You can certainly qualify unlimited service for reasonable use.

There was some UK court case where the ruling agrees with what you said. However, both then and now I disagree with it.

The reason is it is absolutely wrong in terms of language:

  unlimited - without limits
  reasonable use - use limited to a reasonable amount
The other problem is that reasonable is not a number. Everybody has a different reasonable. This is the same as saying a service has a secret limit which you won't be told about.

Why not just say there is a 5GB limit? That would be clear, fair and not at all misleading.

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Re:OneDrive has stopped working on non-NTFS drives by keithpeter on Friday July 07, 2017 @05:59AM (#14717235)
UK: What 'reasonable' means is decided by a court when there is a case. They do take circumstances into account (e.g. domestic user or business &c)

I do think that there should be segmented contracts with numerical ranges in to avoid idiots.

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