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Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!"

Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision.

General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.

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David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)

So put in some kind of limits. I am EXTREMELY wary of using anything that doesn't define limits. As I can have the rug pulled out from under me.

Yeah - I think there is going to be a natural wariness as people get used to using cloud services. This kind of clause is only going to make people nervous.

Then you should look at whether you advertise it as "unlimited". It could look like mis-selling and I think the service looks good so you should possibly look at this

EDIT: I'd like to just say that I've downloaded and am using the app and its lovely. Really well done. Regarding the bandwidth usage, I think you should still be able to come up with something that is representative rather than what you are currently using. Hosting companies have done it for many years, so just come up with a bandwidth figure per Gb that you are happy with

I mean, look at it like this. I have a bunch of legitamite but highly used content. I throw it up on this, knowing that amazon's s3 service can serve it far easier than I can.

And it uses one hell of a lot of gigabytes. Hundreds of 'em. A week.

Would this get me terminated?

If you want to be able to pull accounts that are doing illegal things, why don't you just say "we can pull your account if you're doing illegal things"? You would even get the ISO pirates who keep their bandwidth usage in line with the herd that way. Is this some kind of common-carrier thing?

I would much rather see a Gmail-esque size limit that continually increases with capacity than a false claim of 'unlimited' personally.

exactly: and BTW whats the difference between dropbox and zumo?

Dropbox stores your files locally and syncs them with the files on the cloud. Zumo stores them only in the cloud and streams them to you on demand.

unlimited = if you pay for it.

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