Dropbox Sunsets unbegrenztes Speicherangebot dank Krypto-Minern
- Dropbox is sunsetting its “Advanced Plan,” which offers unlimited storage to customers.
- Als Grund für die Entscheidung nannte das Unternehmen energieverbrauchende Aktivitäten wie Krypto- und Chia-Mining.
- Under the new “Advanced Plan” with three licenses, customers will get 15 TB of storage shared by the team.
- Kunden, die weniger als 35 TB nutzen, können ihren Speicher kostenlos behalten, zusammen mit weiteren 5 TB gepooltem Speicher.
Dropbox, ein File-Hosting-Dienstleister mit Sitz in San Francisco, Kalifornien, hat angekündigt, dass er seinen Nutzern keinen unbegrenzten Speicherplatz mehr anbieten wird, nachdem er festgestellt hat, dass mehrere Personen das Angebot für ressourcenintensive Prozesse wie Kryptowährungs-Mining nutzen. Der Abbau digitaler Vermögenswerte wie Bitcoin hat aufgrund seines erhöhten Energiebedarfs und seiner Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt die Aufmerksamkeit von Konzernen und Regulierungsbehörden auf sich gezogen.
In einem Blog Post on August 24, Dropbox confirmed the news, stating that it is moving to a metered storage policy on its “Advanced Plan.” Furthermore, the American firm confirmed that the vast majority of its customers need not take any action and will be able to keep their existing storage and more for up to five years at no additional charge.
Dropbox added that it had introduced the Advanced Plan, offering businesses unlimited access to data storage under its “as much space as you need” policy. The plan offered customers access to as much storage as they needed, “along with sophisticated admin, audit, security, and integration capabilities,” said the firm, while adding:
“Over time, we found a growing number of customers were buying Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases, or even instances of reselling storage.”
Dropbox confirmed that crypto and China miners consume thousands of times more storage than its regular customers while noting that under its Advanced Plan, it sought to provide “as much storage as needed to run a legitimate business or organization, not to provide unlimited storage for any use case.”
The firm noted that it would be difficult to introduce a list of “acceptable” and “unacceptable” use cases for its Advanced Plan and that it would be a daunting task to enforce them at scale. Therefore, it has decided to sunset the “as much space as you need” policy and is now transitioning to a metered model.
Darüber hinaus bestätigte Dropbox, dass Kunden mit dem neuen Advanced-Plan mit drei aktiven Lizenzen ab dem 24. August 15 TB gemeinsamen Speicherplatz vom Team erhalten können. Darüber hinaus erhält jede weitere aktive Lizenz 5 TB Speicherplatz.
“Customers using less than 35TB of storage per license—over 99% of Advanced customers—will be able to keep the total amount of storage their team is using at the time they’re notified, plus an additional 5TB credit of pooled storage, for five years at no additional charge to their existing plan,” said Dropbox.
Wie Bitnation zuvor berichtete, haben Gesetzgeber in den Vereinigten Staaten darüber nachgedacht ein Verbot aussprechen zum Kryptowährungs-Mining, was einen Tribut für den Sektor der digitalen Vermögenswerte fordern könnte.