It doesn’t matter, strict enforcement is not the point. we’re talking about reducing “crap data” which is data people don’t care about long-term. If you care enough about the data to copy it manually more power to you. If you don’t care that much, you’ll let it get purged, whch is the goal.
If the files are exact copies, then MD5 checks will catch them; tweaking so many files just to bypass this could prove to be too tedious of a process for people to bother exploiting it.
However, people could create scripts for others to mass-download, -edit, and -upload their files accordingly to reduce this tedium.
charge more to customers for long term data storage. allow short-term for free.
How do you differentiate old from new? I can just create a fresh copy of whatever I’m storing and it’ll look new.
It doesn’t matter, strict enforcement is not the point. we’re talking about reducing “crap data” which is data people don’t care about long-term. If you care enough about the data to copy it manually more power to you. If you don’t care that much, you’ll let it get purged, whch is the goal.
If the files are exact copies, then MD5 checks will catch them; tweaking so many files just to bypass this could prove to be too tedious of a process for people to bother exploiting it.
However, people could create scripts for others to mass-download, -edit, and -upload their files accordingly to reduce this tedium.
That can be trivially defeated.
I know; I just gave an example of how immediately after in the same comment lol.