[Smalltalker-80]

Thechnically cool, but ToS state: "Misuse of Service Restrictions - Purpose Restriction: The Service is intended for video viewing and sharing, not as a general-purpose, cloud-based file storage service." So they can rightfully delete your files.

[ilaksh]

Its interesting that this exact use case is already covered in their ToS. I wonder when the first YouTube as storage project came out, and how many there have been over the years.

[kingstnap]

The idea of exploiting someone else's server to store files is incredibly old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive

When Google launched Gmail (2004) with a huge 1GB storage quota, Richard Jones released GMailFS to mount a Gmail account as a standard block device.

[Valkryst]

At-least as far back as 2017 when I wrote Schillsaver: https://github.com/Valkryst/Schillsaver

None of us, in the original discussion threads, knew of it being done before then IIRC.

[altmanaltman]

I mean, it is pretty likely they figured out it could be a pretty obvious possible misuse before anyone actually started doing it.