Daily Deal: Dripbit Online Backup Lifetime Subscription
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There's such a feeling of helplessness mixed with anger when one of your devices crashes or is lost. All of those files and photos are gone in a second unless you've remembered to back them up somewhere. Today's deal of 88% off of Dripbit Online Backup's Lifetime Subscription could be a handy service to have. You'll be signed up for the "Just Right" plan of 1TB of cloud storage that can be shared across 5 computers with top-notch firewalls and AWS 256 encryption. You will have access to the files you need anytime with any web browser (or app) and can even stream music and movies straight from the cloud to save space on your computer. This deal ends soon, so head on over to the store today.Note: We earn a portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals. The products featured do not reflect endorsements by our editorial team.
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Let's not forget the old saying, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Although this might seem like an incredible deal for things such as making weekly offsite hard drive backups, there is simply no way that any company can offer a lifetime of unlimited service for such a bandwidth-intensive application for a single payment of $55. The only way this could plausibly work (at least in the short term) is to structure it as a pyramid scheme. But pyramid schemes do not make successful long-term business models, as all will eventually fail.
Let's imagine for a moment that this will be the first company in modern history to actually keep its "lifetime" promise. Even if the subscription period were to last for 30, 40, or 50 years, it's a good guess that the bandwidth will probably be limited to one terabyte total transfer (and you thought the 1TB number only referred to online storage capacity, huh?). Or at least that's what the company could claim when heavy-use customers get cut off (or throttled) after a short time.
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Even Steam games don't sell for this kind of deal, and they have proven themselves to be profit earners and aren't new contenders for customer's wallets.
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essentially they say they will retain your info for duration of your account (which would be lifetime in this case) and will share/sell it to anyone they want to - and will gladly share your files with anyone who claims to have a legal interest in them.
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They are required to obey legal subpoenas of course, in which case they could just hand over an encrypted data dump. That's the way all cloud providers should operate, giving customers the maximum possible privacy protection. But instead, they serve as tentacles of the police state.
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What is the cost break down of cloud vs home backup and what are the reliability numbers? Several instances have occurred where online services have terminated user accounts with little to no warning. How long does it take to d/l the entirety of your backup - you know, when they are going out of business?
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Another NSA front??
I suggest you also offer your own assssmment of the credibility of the offer and the lack of at least an obvious backing of some nefarious governmental agency. Obviously without guaranty. But it sure would make me mormcmfortable knowing that Mike would use the service.
Paul KEATING
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I think that sentence self-destructed from contradiction.
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Stay Away From This
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Dripbit is Livedrive
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DripBit Lifetime Service
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Lifetime:
The term lifetime on plans refers to the life of the service or product as long as we offer it in its current form. If the product/service changes considerably (as determined by us), this would be the end of the life cycle for the product/service and end the lifetime contract.
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Service terminated
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