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I'll bet they work in the hosting industry and they're just using spare capacity for this.
I guess I just don't understand that logic. I also work in a hosting-focused industry. We host large amounts of files for paying customers in a much less sexy industry, but we still revolve around file hosting. As a result, we have a lot of storage space and at times we have a lot of free storage space. What would be the benefit of letting people upload files to our open storage and then download them, as well, entir…
I operated my site in this manner for nearly 6 years. I enjoyed tinkering on it and got a kick out of the fact that a bunch of people used it.