Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft previously offered Office 365 subscribers unlimited space on their OneDrive cloud storage platform. Now, the company has announced that it's reducing the limit to 1 TB, citing abuse from a small number of users, some of whom dropped 75 TB worth of data in Microsoft's cloud. In addition, Microsoft is cutting the size of their limited storage plans. They used to offer 100 GB for $2/month and 200 GB for 4$/month. Those plans are being replaced with 50 GB for $2/month (existing subscribers will get to keep their plans, for now). Microsoft is also decreasing the amount of space users get for free from 15 GB to 5 GB, and discontinuing the 15 GB camera roll bonus. These changes will roll out in "early 2016," and users will have up to a year to get down under the new caps.

Comments

Using your advertised space != Abuse

[guruevi]

Don't advertise as unlimited if uploading 70TB of data is too much. It's called false advertising and is against the law in European countries. Sadly, the US doesn't have good consumer protection laws.

Re:Using your advertised space != Abuse

[arth1]

I thought all the Microsoft data was stored in Ireland. Wasn't that their previous excuse?

No, it's just their money that is stored in Ireland.

Re:Using your advertised space != Abuse

[suutar]

actually, they're not. TFA does not use the word abuse; that was injected by the submitter or editor. MS described the use of 75TB as an "extreme backup scenario"

Re: Using your advertised space != Abuse

[Anonymous Coward]

Pray they do not alter it further.

The real definition of "abuse"

[SuperKendall]

Claiming you are offering some very large resource, then pulling that away in short order is REAL abuse.

If the number of people "abusing" the system (with only 75TB of data) then why couldn't Microsoft have just absorbed those users? That's only 75x the current limit, are the number of users of the system in the mere thousands?

I almost signed up with them to upload a few TB of photos/video I've taken over the years as an online backup. Good thing I didn't go with Microsoft!

They admit user data snooping!

[Anonymous Coward]

How would they know about "entire movie collections" being stored?
So very comforting!

Re:Abuse?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, never mind... RTFA, they don't call it abuse. Stupid summary, then.

Re:Pron

[hawguy]

Better start finding a new home for your porno collection!

All my porn is in ASCII format, so it doesn't take much room.

So is mine, but those ASCII movies still take up space and I have over 100TB in my collection -- especially the new 4K movies. You should see how many monitors I had to put up to display a 4096 x 2160 xterm.

Re:Photos

[sexconker]

Plus, hard copies aren't nearly secure enough. Even the best archival quality printing will fade. That's even true just for the relatively short amount of time some of us have been keeping digital archives.

Perhaps you just never did anything interesting ever...

One day you will die.
Your children, friends, neighbors, or government will then go through your crap and toss the vast majority of it out.
When those people die, the same will happen to them, and wait trace remained of your shit will be further diluted.

Your futile efforts to preserve everything are nothing but a symptom of your inability to accept your own mortality.
Even if you die on a cross or you end up buried in a pyramid, people will forget you and your mark on the world will fade out of existence.

TLDR: Let it go, let it goooooooo!