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If a service claims that they provide UNLIMITED storage why using it is abusing?
by Oletros 9y ago
If a service claims that they provide UNLIMITED storage why using it is abusing?
- burkaman 9y agoabuse: use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose; misuse. Abuse doesn't mean breaking the rules. It's like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet and staying for a week. Or taking a job with unlimited vacation time and coming to work once a month.
- Oletros 9y agoThen we agree to disagree.
- burkaman 9y agoWhat do we disagree about?
- Oletros 9y agoI disagree with you in that it is a misuse. What Amazon should do, as Microsoft should have been done in the case of the unlimited Onedrive offer is putting some clause of reasonable use. When some company offers an unlimited resource, some of the customers will use it to upload/download/etc a lot.
- milcron 9y agoThey should declare limits, then.
- nkrisc 9y agoI bet in the ToS there are likely limits spelled out, or barring that, a clause that grants Amazon to right to shut you down if they unilaterally decide you're "abusing" the system.
- Oletros 9y agoI have looked at the TOS in Spain and you won the bet :) They can shut down your account for the reason you stated
- Dylan16807 9y agoYeah, never make a bet that a company doesn't have a vaguely worded way to kick off whoever they want at any time. But it would be nicer for everyone if they could just honestly state a number of TB.
- eli 9y agoThere are: you can only use approved third-party apps to connect to the service. This one is no longer approved.
- petepete 9y agoTechnically it's not. Hoarding for hoarding's sake is a waste of a obviously limited resource, though.
- dmd 9y agoHOPSFIELD No, these are entries for McDonald's Sweepstakes. No purchase necessary. Enter as often as you want. So, I am. CHRIS Really? HOPSFIELD This box makes it one million, six hundred thousand. I should win thirty two point six percent of the prizes, including the car. CHRIS Kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it? HOPSFIELD I suppose so. But they set up the rules, and lately, I have come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.
- tzs 9y agoFor those who don't recognize it, that's from the movie "Real Genius". For those who don't quite remember it that way, that looks like it is the version from an early version of the script. By the time the movie was actually made it was changed to Frito-Lay from McDonald's, Hopsfield was changed to Hollyfeld, and the above dialog was altered slightly. That scene is based on a real life incident which in fact involved a McDonald's sweepstakes and Caltech students entering over a million times: [1] Since everyone knew that the school in the movie, Pacific Tech, was meant to be a thinly disguised Caltech (it only became Pacific Tech when Caltech objected), and McDonald's had not been happy with the Caltech sweepstakes prank and probably would not want it brought up, my guess is that one or both of McDonalds and Caltech asked for the change. Changing it to Frito-Lay is an interesting choice, because six years before the McDonald's sweepstakes, a group of Caltech students tried mass entry on a Frito-Lay sweepstakes, but apparently were not as successful. [1] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_caper http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...
- dmd 9y agoCrap. I knew something seemed off about it. Thank you! ==== Lazlo: No. These are entries into the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes. "No purchase necessary, enter as often as you want" - so I am. Chris: That's great! How many times? Lazlo: Well, this batch makes it one million six hundred and fifty thousand. I should win thirty-two point six percent of the prizes, including the car. Chris: That kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn't it? Lazlo: They set up the rules, and lately I've come to realize that I have certain materialistic needs.