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Forum Discussion
No additional space on Business Advanced
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before...
Sir, you are creating conspiracy theories here.
In a lot of countries you are _obliged_ to store data encrypted. It is not only from interest for video-pirates, but for companies that do architectural and mechanical design, modelling, video-editing and so on. It is a very unwise allegation you are formulating that everyone encrypting their files does bad.
It is for security. Of customer data and sensitive project data.
Also you should ask _why_ people are encrypting their data. Simply because dropbox is scanning the files for copyright-infringement.
If they would not do this, but they are obliged by law to do this unfortunately, then people would not encrypt because it creates overhead to encrypt. And then you could deduplicate on filesystem-side of Dropbox. If you want to be angry at someone, be angry at the lawmakers and rights-holders that are after people that digitize their DVD-collections instead of caring for real criminality in the streets and be angry at Dropbox that is making contracts with people and not fulfilling it, - not be angry at people that use their storage they bought _as advertised_ by Dropbox in an absolutely legitimate manner.
@Shamrock22
You know WHY they are encrypting; to avoid copyright infringement of scanned files. 😆 That provides me all I need to know.
Like I said, any REAL company would not be using Dropbox as a BACKUP. They would USE REAL BACKUP SERVICES. Dropbox is to SHARE files.
And conspiracies? You can see people discussing and using Dropbox for mass uploading files and mounting Dropbox with Rclone at the forum links I provided in my OP. 🤣
I use Dropbox and using encryption to store the security videos from my clients. We encrypt because we don't want those files getting leaked online. I understand Dropbox scanning files for piracy, but I don't want them scanning our files and accessing them so easily. Who know what some hacker group might be able to do if they got access to something like that. Better the encrypt the files and be safe. Doesn't mean you are pirating at all. Plus we are using this because it's a lot cheaper are was supposedly more reliable then the other options out there.
@Dominus
Then you are caught in the cross-fire and should never believe the word "unlimited storage". Google Workspace is now enforcing limits and Dropbox will too. The only re-course is to migrate to locally storing and use Blackbaze as a backup.
Also, why are you storing security footage online? It's best kept OFFLINE is it not? You are violating AUP too as you are backing up too.
The "cloud" is someone else's computer..
I should be more clear, these accounts are storing 50,100,200,300+ terabytes of data. Most users will not be storing this insane amount of data. If you only check accounts doing this on or after March 2023; you can get almost all the big offenders.
@Tomato2515
I think you're reading into their AUP a little too much.
Why would Dropbox offer a business plan if you cannot use the service to back up your files as a business ?
- use the Services to back up, or as infrastructure for, your own cloud services;
All this means is you cannot create a cloud ecosystem using the storage supplied by Dropbox, not that you can't backup your business files. If this were the case, Dropbox wouldn't offer business plans.
As for the encryption, not sure if this is the case where you are, but where I live, if we are backing up data that has sensitive information held within it, we MUST encrypt this information by law or we can be fined.
I understand your frustration, but Google is still offering unlimited storage to business accounts with 5 or more users, just like Dropbox has a limitation of 3 users. But calling for banning users from using encrypted data is downright silly. Do a little more homework before spouting such nonsense.
