Then the others become less bad, and you switch to them. And so on.
I was getting upload speeds on the order of kilobytes per second on a gigabit fiber connection while my CPU was idling. Filed a support request and they bumbled around a bit and then ceased responding to me entirely until I opened another ticket and demanded a refund. It took 5 __months__ to get to this point, with them not responding for weeks at a time.
I'd recommend something like https://www.syncany.org/ over SpiderOak any day.
IMO the major functional differences between it and Dropbox are:
* You have to provide the servers that Dropbox provides. I.E. you have to provide the level of availability that you want. [2]
* FOSS licensed.
* Because your data is only ever stored on your machines, you are only limited by your own storage and bandwidth.
[2] This requirement has actually loosened to some degree because the latest version of Syncthing introduced relay servers. So you still need to provide available storage servers, but you can use relays to overcome partitions in your network.
To sum up my reasons very quickly:
- I want to store my data offsite, where it isn't vulnerable to breakins, fire, water damage etc.
- I have no offsite storage I can trust completely.
- Syncthing only supports storing plaintext on disk.
Therefore I can't use syncthing to securely and remotely store data.
This is where Syncany wins. You don't have to trust the storage endpoint.
Also, Syncthing requires having a CPU attached to your remote storage, meaning your remote options are limited to a VPS or dedicated server. This is significantly more expensive than buying block storage from Google or Amazon.
If Syncthing ever resolves https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109 I'll be open to using it, until then it's out.
1. Pick the top three offenders (not in the same industry).
2. For each offender, find their cash cow, or top 3 most profitable products.
3. Make a concerted effort to boycott those products, and those products alone, indefinitely. Make some real damage.
The purpose here is to make an example out of someone. Build morale among protesters that if well organized, they can be effective.
First scenario: One million US/Canadian citizens sporadically decide to buy from company Y instead of company X... nobody notices.
Second scenario: Company Z suddenly loses 100,000 customers for their core product... I'll bet you someone notices.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
I suspect if that had a noticeable impact the other related companies would fall in line to avoid being targeted for a boycott.
Disney wants far more of the profit the cinemas make, which is already next to nothing, and for some cinemas would lead to them paying Disney more than they have in income.
So cinemas have been boycotting Disney.
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/star-wars-boykott-deutsche...