Dropbox is eliminating its unlimited plan because some users were exploiting it for activities like Bitcoin mining, pooling storage for personal use cases, and even reselling storage.
Customers who purchase a Dropbox Advanced plan with three active licences will now receive 15TB of storage capacity shared by the team, according to a new modification.
This is enough space, according to Dropbox, to store approximately 100 million documents, 4 million photographs, or 7,500 hours of HD video. 5TB of storage will be given for each additional active licence.
“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 wrote in a blog post.
Storage add-ons will be sold for 1TB for $10/month if purchased monthly or $8/month if purchased annually starting on September 18 for new customers and on November 1 for current customers.
On November 1, Dropbox will begin gradually transitioning current users to the new policy. The business promises to give all customers at least 30 days’ notice before the scheduled migration date.
