For all we know that guy had a lot worse things than a couple of half nude pics in those 9GB of data.
Having followed a bunch of these types of stories on some other sites (webhostingtalk), 9 out of 10 times the "victim" is holding back so much details from the actual story that they might as well be lying.
you said: I'm suprised how easily people swallow someone else's hearsay and then spray vomit it out as the truth.
and then you said: Having followed a bunch of these types of stories on some other sites (webhostingtalk), 9 out of 10 times the "victim" is holding back so much details from the actual story that they might as well be lying.
You're contradicting yourself. You're stating hearsay (you had no direct contact with the issue of 9/10 lying people, you only heard it from webhostingtalk) and then purporting it to be true.
Regardless of whether the original author is telling the truth, it doesn't matter because that's not the point of the article. The point is that you may lose more than you know simply by being deemed a violator in the eyes of Microsoft, so it's buyer beware.
Relating to your comment: People are innocent until proven guilty in the US. If Microsoft found something that they deemed a code of conduct violation, then they can bring it up with the police or they can at least bring it up with the account owner. Maybe it was SkyDrive uploading more than he expected?
I'm promoting the statistical observation that there is a 90%-95% chance that these types of stories are made up.
My dataset is gathered over the last decade, from hundreds of stories, first published by the "victim", then detailed by the other party.
> so it's buyer beware
No. It's reader beware, if you want to take my comment into context.
The fact is if there is no sensationalism, then there is no story. Hence we get mostly sensationalism when we get stories. And that's not hearsay.
As far as statistics go, there's a 100% percent chance you pulled that one out your arse.
I don't think that private file storage services should be snooping in what I'm storing. Their limitations to what I store should be limited to what's legal (they can have stricter limitations to what I share if they want), and they shouldn't be checking every file (even automatically) to see if it looks legal.
I tried to look for the ToS, but it seems that to see them I have to first get a LiveID and agree to the LiveID ToS, so I gave up at that point.
Terms Of Use: http://www.microsoft.com/info/au-en/cpyright.mspx
Service Agreement: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-live/microsoft-se...
Stop pattern matching and start thinking.