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Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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So this becomes "You are not paying, so you are the product" with a twist. As the premium plan gets cheaper, the more friends you invite, the saying goes something like this: "If you are not paying, you sell your friend's data as a product?" Sorry, but that is some twisted pyramid scheme imho.

I guess it's about marketing Hive to people. If you bring them 100 customers, and 5% of them will pay full price for Premium. Why shouldn't they give you smth in return?

Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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I really dislike the fact that this is totally anti-privacy which is one of the hottest topics in cloud file storage today. Everyone is asking for things to be more secure, and people are willing to pay for storage and security when they need it. This is solving the wrong problem.

Agreed. camlistore and sandstorm.io are far more interesting, to me.

Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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So it looks like the general consensus is people are not comfortable being the product. They would rather pay a nominal fee. So it's funny if Hive charged only like $0.99 / month or even $2 / mo I bet this launch would be received a little more graciously.

Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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Won't let me drop a directory of files in, because one of them is a bittorrent file (why are you looking so carefully at the types of my files?) mp3s don't seem to come back bit-identical, obviously some editting going on remotely. So, don't trust this with files where you actually care about your data not getting "adjusted".

How about a zip file?

Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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Won't let me drop a directory of files in, because one of them is a bittorrent file (why are you looking so carefully at the types of my files?) mp3s don't seem to come back bit-identical, obviously some editting going on remotely. So, don't trust this with files where you actually care about your data not getting "adjusted".

How about a zip file?

I don't care enough to do deep experiments, but it seems if I upload files Hive doesn't have "magic" for, they don't get changed. Also, another mp3 didn't get changed, so maybe they do some kind of cleanup on some?

Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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I really dislike the fact that this is totally anti-privacy which is one of the hottest topics in cloud file storage today. Everyone is asking for things to be more secure, and people are willing to pay for storage and security when they need it. This is solving the wrong problem.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the privacy advocates are the target market for this site. I also believe that the cloud has proven people are willing to forgo some privacy in exchange for the ease of use/access. I don't take part is such activities, but many seem to.

You're right on both counts. However, everyone, including members of younger generations, is becoming more aware of the potential harm from cloud providers not having sufficient security around our data. The market for services where this kind of cavalier "let your data be free" attitude prevails is shrinking. Look at the recent Snapchat and iCloud photo leaks. All the kids are seeing this.

Re: Hive: Free unlimited cloud storage for you and your friends

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I am a heavy user of Plex and have about 600GB of video in my Dropbox via Plex Cloud Sync. Hive has no desktop client as far as I can see which is already a deal breaker as the machine I browse on is not the machine my video is stored on. On top of all of this we have no clue how they plan to offer this free storage other than "Ads".

Don't get me wrong $9/mo for unlimited data sounds nice but there is no way I am using my upload pipe to move my 10-12TB of media into a cloud that I know nothing about and could shut down next month.

To be fair I doubt I am the user they are targeting. It's not a "All your media in the cloud" but rather "A way to share one-off video/picture/music in the cloud which is not something I am interested in at all.

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