I'm maybe cynical here, but this service will go away within a year. And it won't be because of too high direct costs for the host. It will be because of too much hassle.
When you do something like this these days, you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates looking for cheap storage or seedboxes and hacker groups valuing the anonymity for their releases which in turn will attract DoS attacks which will be a huge hassle for the provider to deal with.
So within a year, you won't only have to deal with too many users taking too many resources, you will also have to deal with annoyed providers, with law enforcement constantly asking for data you can't provide and of course with constant DMCA takedown requests.
And that's why we can't have nice things any more :/
Well it looks like they have an approval process so I feel that they can easily ban users that abuse their service. With that said, I'm sure that's an issue they will have to eventually face, but that is the liability that all hosting companies have.
granted is not easy but "you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates" to give a bit of credit to the HN community most of the applicants were, in my opinion, well-meaning people ranging from students in College to developers looking for another playground. Most of the things loved by spammers (e.g. emails via localhost, remote connections) are not allowed so I don't think it would be so interesting to trouble makers. For storage there are so many free solutions that I doubt that anyone would even bother with this but...you have a good point and we are doing our best to keep the trouble makers away and monitor the system with a fast kickban action when needed ;)
When you do something like this these days, you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates looking for cheap storage or seedboxes and hacker groups valuing the anonymity for their releases which in turn will attract DoS attacks which will be a huge hassle for the provider to deal with.
So within a year, you won't only have to deal with too many users taking too many resources, you will also have to deal with annoyed providers, with law enforcement constantly asking for data you can't provide and of course with constant DMCA takedown requests.
And that's why we can't have nice things any more :/