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Doesn't work. People would just create dummy accounts with 2GB folders, share them with themselves, and have infinite storage.

If they offered a 100GB plan for $20 / month, it would destroy their $125 / year / person plan since I would imagine that in almost all cases that's a much cheaper arrangement for teams.

That's why the current solution is such a disaster. The alternatives are either too easily gamed or they rape Dropbox's revenue.

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Or this could only be for paid customers.

i.e. a folder shared by a paid customer does not consume space for anyone who joins it however a folder shared by a free customer does.

Thats exactly what I am asking. I am paying for 50GB, I have shared out folders from my source to free users. If I put 2GB in those folders, all the free users stop syncing.

I think this is wrong.

If I'm not mistaken, you cannot create dummy accounts. Every account needs to be activated on a machine which doesn't have another copy of dropbox, and this means that you can't have multiple 2GB accounts running at the same time at the same machine.

The current sharing model needs to be thought again.

Create multiple VM's, install multiple Dropbox with multiple account, share with your main account. Profit.

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