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Posted by Jeff Rife on 05/08/06 19:10
Paul Heslop (paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > One limitation of this (even with their paid account) is a 2GB maximum
> > for the size of a single file. That should be OK for a standard DVD,
> > though.
> >
> Ah, I didn't go through the options that much, just noticed the word
> 'free' :O)
When you suggested it, the "free 25GB" got me to investigate. That's
a freaking *lot* of space for free. Even with a lot of reading, I
couldn't figure out how they do it without bleeding cash.
And, now that I look even deeper, the max file size for a free account
is 10MB, with at most 100MB/month downloaded. So, that explains how
they can do "25GB" for free. Nobody would want to store that much when
it would take 20 years to download it back. They basically give you
unlimited storage that you can't retrieve the data from...sort of a
write-only memory.
It's far easier just to post the files to a binary newsgroup and let
USENET take care of the distribution (you can encrypt them if you don't
want them public). Or, use any number of P2P systems to share them.
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