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Dropbox is reducing unlimited storage on its business-focused Advanced plan after seeing a spike in suspicious activity. In a blog post, he saw an increase in people using advanced plans "for business purposes like encryption and Xia, not to run a company or organization," as other services make similar changes to limit storage capacity. Mining and independent gathering of people accordingly Memory for personal use or even resale of memory.
While there are certainly legitimate exceptions when it comes to unlimited storage plans, Dropbox says that attackers "often consume thousands of times more storage space than our real enterprise customers, resulting in an unreliable experience for all of our customers." Policies prohibiting abusive behavior already exist, but the company says it's impossible to create an acceptable set of limits for use. To that end, Dropbox is moving to a reverse-based model.
The company will gradually migrate existing users to the revised Advanced plan from November 1. Customers will be notified of the new policy via Dropbox at least 30 days prior to migration.
Over 99% of Premium plan customers use less than 35 TB of storage per license. According to Dropbox, these teams can continue to use the storage they've been using from the moment they receive the migration notification, plus an additional 5 TB of shared storage for five years, at no cost under their current plans.
A minority of users using more than 35 TB of storage per license will benefit from a similar offer, but for one year. Dropbox will work with them to develop a plan that works in the long term for all involved. All versions of the Advanced plan have a maximum storage capacity of 1000 TB.
Starting today, anyone who buys an Advanced plan with 3 licenses will get a total of 15 TB of shared storage. Each additional license adds 5 TB of storage space. In addition, Dropbox will offer storage add-ons for newcomers starting September 18 (starting November 1 for existing users). It costs $10 per month for 1TB with a monthly payment plan and $8 per month with an annual purchase.
If all this seems absolutely complicated compared to the previous version of the advanced plan, there is only one thing to do: blame it on the crypto-brothers.