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Thechnically cool, but ToS state: "Misuse of Service Restrictions - Purpose Restriction: The Service is intended for video viewing and sharing, not as a general
by Smalltalker-80 8mo ago
Thechnically cool, but ToS state:
"Misuse of Service Restrictions
- Purpose Restriction: The Service is intended for video viewing and sharing, not as a general-purpose, cloud-based file storage service."
So they can rightfully delete your files.
- ilaksh 8mo agoIts interesting that this exact use case is already covered in their ToS. I wonder when the first YouTube as storage project came out, and how many there have been over the years.
- Valkryst 8mo agoAt-least as far back as 2017 when I wrote Schillsaver: https://github.com/Valkryst/Schillsaver https://github.com/Valkryst/Schillsaver None of us, in the original discussion threads, knew of it being done before then IIRC.
- altmanaltman 8mo agoI mean, it is pretty likely they figured out it could be a pretty obvious possible misuse before anyone actually started doing it.
- kingstnap 8mo agoThe idea of exploiting someone else's server to store files is incredibly old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive When Google launched Gmail (2004) with a huge 1GB storage quota, Richard Jones released GMailFS to mount a Gmail account as a standard block device.