This blog post continues the habit of "Good News Now, Bad News Later" by titling the blog post:
"Updates to our storage policy on Dropbox Advanced"
At this point I just assume that "updates" are always a price increase. For those in the future wondering, this was originally posted with an editorialized headline of "Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses". While it's generally HN policy to change editorialized headlines back to their defaults, I would argue that HN should not be complicit in businesses' attempts to cowardly soften the blow. HN should keep the editorialized headline.
Aside from that annoyance, I'm not surprised in the slightest that this was done. Crypto was designed as a vehicle to push the base assumptions of Austrian Economics - i.e. extreme individual liberty in exchange for no free lunches - and thus the one thing it's good at is eating your free lunches as quickly as possible. If you give things away, people will construct a way to get paid for burning what you've given away. The Internet is uniquely hospitable to this kind of misbehavior, so everything has to have a cost, no charity, no welfare, etc.
Aside from that annoyance, I'm not surprised in the slightest that this was done. Crypto was designed as a vehicle to push the base assumptions of Austrian Economics - i.e. extreme individual liberty in exchange for no free lunches - and thus the one thing it's good at is eating your free lunches as quickly as possible. If you give things away, people will construct a way to get paid for burning what you've given away. The Internet is uniquely hospitable to this kind of misbehavior, so everything has to have a cost, no charity, no welfare, etc.