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In May, Google made international headlines when it announced that it was going to offer free, unlimited storage for photos and videos. If you read Google's press release, you'll see that the free storage plan limits images to 16 megapixels and videos to 1080p resolution. But if digital images are simply collections of binary data and if all other files on your computer also just collections of binary data then isn't unlimited photo storage simply unlimited storage?
If only something existed that made this easy to do; you know, something that could bitmap all the things....
[ Ed's Comment: This link points to the author's own personal software solution, but I'm sure that others will come up with alternative ideas.]
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Popeidol on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:44AM
A closely related example is when gmail launched with a whopping 1gb of storage space. At the time hotmail offered about 6mb (from memory), and the most generous free hosting you could find was around 100mb.
It did not take long before somebody wrote a program to Mount your gmail account as a drive for file storage [viksoe.dk] (with a guide for using it here [engadget.com]). A surprising number of people used it until services like dropbox filled the same niche.