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Further proof that when you upload a file to Google Drive, you don’t own that file, they do

• thephyber 6y ago
  You use the platform, you abide by the contract. My only concern is that contract violations (or even gray area violations) are not always predictable by the customer because the legalese in the ToS is so vague. You are overloading the term "own" and your use of "that file" is ambiguous. You "own" (in many senses) the local copy of the uploaded file. You only lease the space and hosting for the remote copy, assuming you pay your bill and abide by the contract. My coworker overflowed his Google Drive quota and learned that lesson the hard way.
  • deepl_derber 6y ago
    > My coworker overflowed his Google Drive quota and learned that lesson the hard way. This sounds a lot more sinister than "my coworker had to delete some files to go back under his quota".
    • thephyber 6y ago
      He lost many MBs of files. He had a local filesystem directory synced with GDrive. He moved (didn't copy) lots of files into the directory and ended up losing all copies of some of the files (we still aren't sure how it picks which subset to keep). It was basically a few weeks of work because he didn't understand the implications of the change (and because he didn't have drive backups).