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Comment by starik36 | Hacker News Reader

Love this quote: "Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average."

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With that quote Microsoft basically admitted that they're browsing around in their users' files.

Good to know they can see what I'm storing in my OneDrive account, and that they'll do so whenever they want to.

This is true for almost[1] all cloud storage providers.

--- [1] Except maybe SpiderOak, or anything you encrypt yourself before upload.

So? I thought it was "unlimited"...? They specifically used that exact word.

what MS missed on the whole blog is Unlimited was a bad idea to begin with, especially on storage no matter what!, ppl would start hoarding.

I would love to know how this will continue for someone that hoarded so much data.

I bet there is lawsuit somewhere here, as "unlimited" does not mean 100GB or 100TB. It's pretty clear what this word means...

In Australia, Optus got into serious trouble from the ACCC when they advertised unlimited download and uploads on their Cable product. They didn't at all allow for unlimited downloads and uploads, so the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission fined them a bucket-load of money and forced them to reinstate unlimited plans for the duration of the contract.

What did they think would happen?

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