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My guess is that the reason they are closing this is the cost of bandwidth. Dropbox allowed to host publicly all types of large files and exchange such files by
by mixedbit 10y ago
My guess is that the reason they are closing this is the cost of bandwidth. Dropbox allowed to host publicly all types of large files and exchange such files by a link that did not require any interaction with DropBox to download. It seems really hard to monetize such usage.
- RachelF 10y agoPerhaps, but the MPAA/RIAA and what happened to KimDotCom are also probably a big factor.
- bane 10y agoI believe they already do some kind of bandwidth monitoring, so I could also see them just passing that along to subscribers who use too much. I would have also hoped their bandwidth costs would have improved when they moved to their own cloud instead of S3.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI vaguely remember that they were able to throttle/block off a public file when it caused unusually high traffic.