I will pay for the service, but only after I've exhausted my X free gigabytes. I'm extending that as far as I can by referring people, and thus getting 250MB more free space for each referral.

If you haven't signed up yet, use my referral link, and you'll get 250MB extra free too :-)

https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTQ4MjgzNjk

PS: Thanks to whoever did use the link :-) I now have 4.5GB :-)

5GB... I'm impressed. I was at 3 GB this morning :-)

Thanks everyone!

(PS: The limit is 5GB, so you should use someone else's referral link from now!)

You can use mine:

https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE4OTk5

In my opinion, that's a pretty shallow statement to make considering your usage and the amount of time that has gone into such sweet product.

I'm a little sick of the whole freemium mentality TBH. Maybe I'm missing something re: the 'long tail' that very few ever reach.

People don't pay proportional to the effort involved. If they did, you'd be able to charge a few hundred $ for an Ubuntu install CD. But you can't.

Even if you provide an extremely useful service, people may still not be willing to pay for it.

I wouldn't worry about it really. For every non payer, there are more than enough people who see the value of dropbox.

On what grounds is using a free service without paying for it something to be looked down upon?

Someone voted me down, but it's a serious question.

An inherent part of the "freemium" model is the "free" bit. The point is to entice people in further. It's up to you the service offerer to make the pay service so compelling that people want to switch to it. It's completely wrongheaded to look at the people who aren't willing to pay and say they are the problem, or say or imply that they are leaching or ungrateful.

You are enticing people in, if you don't have what it takes to then transform them into paying customers, and you don't want to pay for their ongoing use, then perhaps you should switch to a free-trial instead of a free service.

I'd pay for it if they had a plan in between 2GB and 50GB. I want more like 10GB for like $2/month or something - the big plan is too big, so I'd rather not give them $8 extra per month out of the goodness of my heart.

And they support Mac too! So I can have my files available all across my machines now (Mac, Ubuntu, XP, ordered by use frequency)

:)