No additional space on Business Advanced anymore.

I'm saying these users have 200, 300 TB of encrypted data. That points to one thing; copies of movies and TV.

And no, Google does not offer unlimited anymore. Go read....

No just what popped into my head. Can't remember Amazon's; Amazon S3? You get the point.

Tomato2515 are you a BackBlaze employee .... 😉

The huge data influx is from people migrating their Plex collections (hundreds upon hundreds of Terabytes of data) off Google Workspace to Dropbox.

Google acted on enforcing storage limits in March of this year and everyone is rushing to get off. I've been watching the fallout.

No one is going to get sued as Dropbox is covered in their AUP, Terms of Service, etc. and has lawyers. 🙂

Let this be a lesson learned; unlimited is NOT unlimited. When people abuse it, it is tested and the real truth is found out.

Unfortunately not.

Restoring data from backblaze (and crashplan) is slow and expensive. 

There was times when one could order from them harddisks with the files but they stopped this. 

Dropbox, box, google-drive and those storage services are basically 'hot storage' with no cost of downloading stuff.

Governmental agencies for example use services like backblaze due to certain requirements but private companies are free to choose. 

But this whole discussion is nonsense.

Dropbox is a international, giant stock company. They have analysts and accountants that came up with the idea to offer _Unlimited Space_ to people. They thought they could make money that way. Or do you really think they made a mistake and did not foresee this?

This is all bollocks. 

If you offer All you can eat in your hotel and then guests arrive that eat more than you have expected you cannot simply throw them out. This is your fault.

NOt alowed backups on Dropbox ??

https://experience.dropbox.com/en-gb/resources/windows-cloud-backup#:~:text=The%20best%20solution%20will%20prioritise,PC%20in%20three%20easy%20steps.

Please explain, also doesnt matter why someone is backing up secruity footage or in our case video editing we have done for clients under strick NDA's.
Also I am glad you speak for all companys and know what all companys are using for backup services, Guess Dropbox has a buisness section for no reason with no clients by your theory.

As for cross fire, why should legit companys pay the price for those breaking the law? Pretty sure thats not how it should work.

Anyways like I said, your "easy fix" doesnt actually fix anything but put Dropbox into a situation where companys will sue them.
Also I have heard poeple are selling slots for Dropbox, meaning they will have more than 3, so the ones thats will/are using loads of storage on more than 3? Whats you "easy fix" going to do about those?

The picture is alot bigger than you or I, or I am sure Dropbox would have shut down alot of accounts.

Also you claim I am breaking their AUP, They know I am backing up client data, had many live chats with defferent staff members, so you can keep throwing their AUP at me, Dropbox are aware and they are fine with it.

Next?

@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. 

Is Blackbase not the same as GDrive and DBox?