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Either you're allowed to use the space they've said you can or you can't. If you can't then they're lying to you.


To this point, I've not seen anything that shows they're lying. They're gambling that not everyone is going to use the full 5TB allocation, but they're not preventing them from using it.

If everyone does use it, then they're going to have to buy some more storage, and incur the costs associated with managing that. But, odds are that most people won't be using anything like that much.

They've said that when people do use more than expected, they can investigate, and it usually turns out that it is copyrighted content, and so they can (presumably) legally turf them out and get that space back.

Where this gets sticky is when you're using that space for backing up your PC, which seems fair enough. But, I guarantee that a whole bunch of your stuff could be considered copyrighted (MP3s, ripped DVDs, etc.). Can you prove that you're not using their space to share that with other people?

As an analogue in the real world, consider (unmetered) water supply. The water company guarantees to provide you with as much water as you want: just turn on the tap. However, if everyone turned on the tap at the same time, and left them on all day, we'd soon run out of fresh water...
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