A Redditor Archived Almost 2 Petabytes of Porn to Test Amazon’s ‘Unlimited’ Cloud Storage

[Megalan]

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Reddit user beaston02 was determined to find the true ceiling of Amazon's cloud storage plan, which was killed off in June. He decided to push its limits with a petabyte of porn. (Some people credit beaston02 for Amazon's decision to cancel the unlimited storage offering, but he denies that rumor.) For reference, a petabyte is one million gigabytes.

To gather this much data, beaston02 wrote scripts that recorded public webcam shows from a variety of adult cam sites, including CamSoda, Chaturbate, and •••••••••••• He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes.
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Source: [URL="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a33j5a/a-redditor-archived-nearly-2-million-gigabytes-of-porn-to-test-amazons-unlimited-cloud-storage"]Motherboard[/URL]

[disseminate]

F-for testing's sake!

[Chamango]

Not all heroes wear capes...

[c:]

torrent available when

[Tetsmega]

He just stopped? But why?

[Thelurker1234]

Kind of an asshole though, people like him are why we can't have nice things.

[_RJ_]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52612889]Kind of an asshole though, people like him are why we can't have nice things.[/QUOTE]

If everyone's doing it then yeah it's shitty to have the system abused, but I think it's good to have at least one person do it so that we can see if a company will stand by their word.

[AtomicSans]

This shit is why OneDrive stopped being good.

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=_RJ_;52612904]If everyone's doing it then yeah it's shitty to have the system abused, but I think it's good to have at least one person do it so that we can see if a company will stand by their word.[/QUOTE]

Why? Why not have people use it normally... and see if problems ever come up?

Now instead of $59.99 for unlimited storage. Now it's $59.99 per terabyte. Yippee.

[Loopoo]

I find this annoying cause it's so much space occupied by pointless bullshit. if someone was hitting 1 petabyte of data for legitimate files, I'd be alright with it.

but download shit tonnes of porn just for the sake of trying to see if Amazon holds true to their word? what average consumer would ever even hit close to 1 petabyte, jesus

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

since its all camgirl recordings i wonder what percentage of that data is just "thank you for donating"

[RocketRacer]

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;52613019]since its all camgirl recordings i wonder what percentage of that data is just "thank you for donating"[/QUOTE]

Are you willing to perform the research and give us that % number?

[.𓃉𓁿𓂎𓁿𓃉.]

[QUOTE=RocketRacer;52613035]Are you willing to perform the research and give us that % number?[/QUOTE]

i will require a grant consisting mostly of tissues and fluid transfusions, but absolutely

[_RIley]

[QUOTE=RocketRacer;52613035]Are you willing to perform the research and give us that % number?[/QUOTE]

Give me 20 minutes.

[Tuskin]

one of the sites is censored

[Mako]

[QUOTE=Tuskin;52613114]one of the sites is censored[/QUOTE]

It's not censored in the original article. I'm guessing because of spambots.

[X12321]

Darn it, I didn't realize they cancelled the unlimited plan, I uploaded all my uncompressed gameplay/gopro/drone footage to it so I didn't have to keep it on my computer. UGH

[Spleet]

Can I contact him for a bit of data queries? He may have something I want.

[Brant20154]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52612889]Kind of an asshole though, people like him are why we can't have nice things.[/QUOTE]

Then maybe companies shouldn't advertise things as being unlimited if they aren't really unlimited. If it's "unlimited" but has limits to how much one person can store, then it's just false advertising.

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=iownuall;52613340]Then maybe companies shouldn't advertise things as being unlimited if they aren't really unlimited. If it's "unlimited" but has limits to how much one person can store, then it's just false advertising.[/QUOTE]
You could argue that this isn't really how any service works, overprovisioning and whatnot is required for so many things. Your ISP can't really guarantee you your peak speed at all times, VPS providers don't guarantee perfect bandwidth/resources, and even all-you-can-eat restaurants have been known to throw people out.

But amazon didn't even have limits, they just decided it wasn't worth supporting anymore and terminated it for everybody.

[Zeemlapje]

no sharing? how selfish!

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=loopoo;52612916]I find this annoying cause it's so much space occupied by pointless bullshit. if someone was hitting 1 petabyte of data for legitimate files, I'd be alright with it.

but download shit tonnes of porn just for the sake of trying to see if Amazon holds true to their word? what average consumer would ever even hit close to 1 petabyte, jesus[/QUOTE]

to be honest they should always have had a 10-100 TB cap on it, anything past 100TB and you've got to be commercial

[Flameon]

this thread made me laugh, thanks facepunch

[Talvy]

[QUOTE=iownuall;52613340]Then maybe companies shouldn't advertise things as being unlimited if they aren't really unlimited. If it's "unlimited" but has limits to how much one person can store, then it's just false advertising.[/QUOTE]

But they didn't have a limit - they simply decided to set one, since some will try and purposefully abuse the system. I think everybody knows that few things are truly unlimited, so why push it?

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52612889]Kind of an asshole though, people like him are why we can't have nice things.[/QUOTE]

There's a data centre out of there that has a few dozen grand's worth of server racks doing nothing but get clogged up with his stupid project

[TheTalon]

[QUOTE=RocketRacer;52613035]Are you willing to perform the research and give us that % number?[/QUOTE]

I can already answer that, about 8%. But it really depends on the frequency of the tips and what the model is doing, you see. If she's just talking with chat, it's a high percentage, if she's in the middle of triple blasting dragon dildos then it's far lower. So it averages out

[_RJ_]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;52612911]Why? Why not have people use it normally... and see if problems ever come up?

Now instead of $59.99 for unlimited storage. Now it's $59.99 per terabyte. Yippee.[/QUOTE]

Because it tests a company's integrity.

If a company can't stand by their word then that won't bode well with anything else they advertise in the future. Now whenever I read something that they offer I'll always remember to add the asterisk (*) saying that what they're advertising isn't actually true.

[editline]26th August 2017[/editline]

Furthermore, Amazon's actions of cancelling the service because of few users abusing the system is like a teacher punishing the whole class because of one bad behaving student. Nonsense...

[conco]

[QUOTE=_RJ_;52615198]Because it tests a company's integrity.

If a company can't stand by their word then that won't bode well with anything else they advertise in the future. Now whenever I read something that they offer I'll always remember to add the asterisk (*) saying that what they're advertising isn't actually true.

[editline]26th August 2017[/editline]

Furthermore, Amazon's actions of cancelling the service because of few users abusing the system is like a teacher punishing the whole class because of one bad behaving student. Nonsense...[/QUOTE]

Not at all, it's more like not inviting strangers to your house anymore after someone breaks something. Them closing the service isn't a "punishment", it's them deciding that it wasn't worth risking some other idiot doing something like this (or many) now that people know it's possible, along with a plethora of other reasons why keeping something truly unlimited is difficult.

And, yes, you should keep in mind any company's bullshitting you when they say they offer unlimited anything. There's always going to come a point when you're simply not worth keeping on the service, whether it's after a petabyte or a couple tb. This is usually part of the agreement you're supposed to read, because otherwise these services would almost certainly become unsustainable.

[_RJ_]

[QUOTE=chuck14;52615217]Not at all, it's more like not inviting strangers to your house anymore after someone breaks something. Them closing the service isn't a "punishment", it's them deciding that it wasn't worth risking some other idiot doing something like this (or many) now that people know it's possible, along with a plethora of other reasons why keeping something truly unlimited is difficult.[/QUOTE]

I don't quite understand your analogy but I would like to, can you explain it some more? Also I said Amazon's actions is -like- the analogy I gave, hence analogy. If a company advertises X feature and then they go back on their word, well why bother to advertise it to begin with? For the buzz word, or to, I dunno... Actually provide X feature?

[QUOTE=chuck14;52615217]And, yes, you should keep in mind any company's bullshitting you when they say they offer unlimited anything. There's always going to come a point when you're simply not worth keeping on the service, whether it's after a petabyte or a couple tb. This is usually part of the agreement you're supposed to read, because otherwise these services would almost certainly become unsustainable.[/QUOTE]

Yeah... It's unfortunate. I dislike how companies go around advertising this or that, and then once you read the agreement you find out that there's various strings attached. I understand why they do it and I know that they're allowed to do it, that doesn't mean I have to like it though.

[conco]

[QUOTE=_RJ_;52615235]I don't quite understand your analogy but I would like to, can you explain it some more? Also I said Amazon's actions is -like- the analogy I gave, hence analogy. If a company advertises X feature and then they go back on their word, well why bother to advertise it to begin with? For the buzz word, or to, I dunno... Actually provide X feature?

Yeah... It's unfortunate. I dislike how companies go around advertising this or that, and then once you read the agreement you find out that there's various strings attached. I understand why they do it and I know that they're allowed to do it, that doesn't mean I have to like it though.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, I was rushing a bit with the analogy. I guess an easier way to put it, is that the teacher used to let kids have freedom with recess- stay out as much as you want, come back in when you're ready to learn again. But johnny decides, "hah, I'm going to stay out all day". After doing this, the teacher shortens recess to one hour, even though some kids took longer without being all day. This isn't exactly a "punishment" but a preventative action to avoid other kids following in johnny's footsteps now that they know they can push the limits. I guess to the people who lost their unlimited plans it seems like a punishment, even if they didn't use all of it like this idiot, but it was honestly an issue just waiting to happen, and someone was going to feel left out no matter where they put the new cap.

What I'm trying to say (really badly), is it isn't punishing people, it's protecting themselves in an environment where there are going to be plenty of morons that follow "monkey see, monkey do". storage isn't exactly cheap, and waiting for people to hit some cap manually, then checking to see what they have etc. is going to cost amazon more than it's worth.

To your second point, I agree you don't have to like it personally, but i think most "unlimited" things are fine for average consumers. If you don't push it to the limit as hard as possible, you're generally given ample notice that you should cut back a bit (companies don't really want to lose customers by just cutting people off the service). I think for the average person,being told all sorts of limits can be stressful, especially with the tech illiterate. Of course, there are predatory ways of doing this, but amazon was pretty good with the unspoken agreement- don't overload our servers with useless garbage, and you don't have to worry about overage fees and whatnot or have to carefully manage your uploads and pricing plans.

But no, I don't disagree with you on your view. In a more educated world (and one where companies didnt use every loophole possible), everyone'd say exxactly what you're getting upfront.