Daily Deal: Dripbit Online Backup Lifetime Subscription

from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept

Wed, May 13th 2015 1:32pm — Daily Deal

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.

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Anonymous Coward, 13 May 2015 @ 1:38pm

I couldn't find a privacy policy, and the license, terms, and compatibility sections won't open.
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Gretchen Heckmann (profile), 13 May 2015 @ 2:00pm

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I'll see what I can find out for you.
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Anonymous Coward, 13 May 2015 @ 2:13pm

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It doesn't really matter. Anything offered for 88% off is overpriced garbage.
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James Burkhardt (profile), 13 May 2015 @ 2:21pm

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Well, not after the 88% discount. Actually, my biggest question was how they could afford to offer a "lifetime' subscription so cheap. I could chew through that in bandwidth costs in a relatively short time if I am being allowed to stream data from their servers. Hell, I question whether its sustainable for $500.
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Anonymous Coward, 13 May 2015 @ 2:43pm

Sorry, we have begun switching over to Linux and are needing a more forward looking provider that will be near the front of trends not the rear of them. Especially when it's lifetime.
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Easily Amused (profile), 13 May 2015 @ 4:09pm

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http://dripbit.com/privacy-policy/

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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Easily Amused (profile), 13 May 2015 @ 4:13pm

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Adding to my previous comment - in this day and age, any cloud service provider that doesn't have a very up-front bold-typeface statement that they will not release your data without a full court order after notifying the user in time for challenges cannot get any money from me.
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Paul T�tterman (profile), 14 May 2015 @ 12:23am

AWS encryption? Either it's something that shouldn't be used, or they don't care about proofreading technical details. AES would be a bit more convincing, but this is just one of many details that sound fishy
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Anonymous Coward, 14 May 2015 @ 4:12am

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"my biggest question was how they could afford to offer a "lifetime' subscription so cheap. I could chew through that in bandwidth costs in a relatively short time if I am being allowed to stream data from their servers."

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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Anonymous Coward, 14 May 2015 @ 4:36am

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I don't see why a "cloud" service can't be offered that does not automatically have master keys or backdoors built in. Is there some kind of legal requirement for a service provider (in certain countries) to build in backdoors? (and if so, why can't they simply set up shop somewhere else?)

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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Anonymous Coward, 14 May 2015 @ 6:00am

Subscription cloud service for backups? No thanks, I have several usb hard drives.

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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Paul KEATING (profile), 14 May 2015 @ 7:38am

Another NSA front??
I love that you offer these deals. HOWEVER part of me simply presumes that the service is actuall offered by the NSA as test another way to scrape private data.

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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Matmon (profile), 14 May 2015 @ 10:25am

Mega does.
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Anonymous Coward, 15 May 2015 @ 6:55pm

Re: Another NSA front??
Nothing offered in the deals is really worth anything. They're just advertisement so- why Techdirt doesn't just have ads instead is beyond me.
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John Fenderson (profile), 16 May 2015 @ 7:18am

Re: Re: Another NSA front??
"They're just advertisement so- why Techdirt doesn't just have ads instead is beyond me."

I think that sentence self-destructed from contradiction.
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Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2015 @ 10:51am

Re: Re: Re: Another NSA front??
TechDirt has always refused to have ads, so now they do fake articles on products instead and pretend they're better than other ads.
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Anonymous Coward, 16 May 2015 @ 10:57am

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No, even after "88% off" it's still worthless. If the product or service is normally sold for $480 by necessity it wouldn't be offered for $50. It is dishonestly priced by a factor of 10 or being sold by a business that is doomed to fail due to the strategy.

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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Nestea80 (profile), 18 May 2015 @ 11:50pm

Stay Away From This
I wouldn't trust them. DrivePop gave the same sort of deal and look what happened. They shut down. This is the same sort of service. They are just LiveDrive resellers. Take a look at the comments over here: http://www.backupreview.com/drivepop-review/
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Paul, 5 Jun 2015 @ 7:08pm

Dripbit is Livedrive
Dripbit is livedrive - I had a lifetime subscription to Livedrive and one day they just up and discontinued their service. It is now being repackaged as dripbit. Checkout the name of the setup file; "Livedrive.exe"
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Craig Welch (profile), 7 Jun 2015 @ 6:51am

Dripbit is already dead. Check their Facebook page and read some of the comments. Try getting anything at all from support or 'live' chat.
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Joost, 15 Jun 2015 @ 9:09am

DripBit Lifetime Service
Quote:
"
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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krywen, 8 Jul 2016 @ 8:49am

Service terminated
Dripbit, as a Livedrive reseller, just terminated my account even if I had a lifetime subscription. Stay away from these. They only offered to gain access to my files.
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