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Wow. "Unlimited" for $60/yr. Do you think they'd be ok with me uploading my entire 12tb library? I wasn't able to find any limits in the fine print.

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I have ~18TB there. No issues so far.

Some people have 1.3PB there: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5xhqsk/linux_i... Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/NmGQf7b.png

Plenty of people on Reddit's /r/DataHoarder have done far more than that, easily into the tens of TBs. The problems come when you upload unencrypted copyrighted content or try to download more than 1TB in a single day.

Wait, what happens if you upload unencrypted copyright content? I legally own quite a bit of that, as I suspect most people do.

Amazon has on some occasions banned users for merely uploading it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...

Well-why use the service if the company can snoop through it at will? Seems to defeat the purpose of having a private data store. All you need to do to see someone's data is work for customer support at amazon.

Because the service is cheap, comes with a ton of storage and is convenient. Few average people care about their privacy online.

Well, you have a license to use the material, but that license probably wasn't written with the intent of you streaming it from someone else's server.

Hmm... there are laws allowing you to make backups of licensed content. Can you explain more about how license would forbid you from storing those backups on Amazon server?

perhaps streaming would in the law as a form of broadcast, thus storing it would be fine but as the purpose of storing in that situation is to broadcast that would be illegal (not saying that is the case, just making a reasonable scenario)

Who's to say how it's being used?

you probably didn't study the EULA

You clearly did. Can you answer my question?

Like others said you should be fine, people have stored much much more without issue. Just make sure it's all encrypted.

I've read people saying they have at least 3 times that.

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