Re:Get 50GB of Box free for life
by nvr219 on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @01:27PM
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When I got my HP TouchPad during the fire sale I got the free 50GB Box account, and this is exactly why I didn't switch. I keep various ISOs and DMGs in dropbox. What is the reason for this file size limit?
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Re:Get 50GB of Box free for life
by benologist on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @03:23PM
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It keeps out all the free and essentially unaccountable users who would like to use them for movie/software/game piracy.
Could be to discourage people from storing media there. OS images and videos are probably the biggest things people would store. They're also the most pirated content. My guess is either: a) they don't care to host 100TB of pirated content, or b) they're afraid of the legal ramifications of it. Imposing a file size limit keeps a huge bulk of usage away and a lot of the piracy concerns while not really inconveniencing the vast majority of normal users.
To incent you to upgrade to the paid version?
That can't be it because the business version has a 2GB limit as well. That's too small to store Windows, OS X, Debian, or FreeBSD DVD images.
The "enterprise" version has a 5GB per-file limit which would meet my needs - for now - but surely they're not expecting a single user to purchase an enterprise account.