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.
replyAt-least as far back as 2017 when I wrote Schillsaver: https://github.com/Valkryst/Schillsaver
replyNone of us, in the original discussion threads, knew of it being done before then IIRC.
The idea of exploiting someone else's server to store files is incredibly old.
replyhttps://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.
I mean, it is pretty likely they figured out it could be a pretty obvious possible misuse before anyone actually started doing it.
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