What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (2014)
&gt; We’ll keep prosumer entry points around mainly because I think Colin will go nuclear if I suggest otherwise<p>So that kind of thinking is why every second thing I’d like to hobby-use is priced as a free trial with one missing crucial feature, then $300&#x2F;mo. It might be rational even, but I’d expect the actual utility does have a negative term for <i>I’m going to hate your service with a fiery passion (and probably also you) if you do this</i>. (Cf recent discussion on customer “support” chatbots.)<p>&gt; let’s boil it down to a simple intuition: people getting more value out of Tarsnap should pay more for it<p>That’s basically the definition of a discriminating monopolist and what gets you airline-style inscrutable pricing and the SSO tax, isn’t it? Again, screw that noise. I can’t really motivate this well, but to a first approximation I (a) dislike seeing pricing disconnected from costs; (b) cannot resist the urge to minmax thus cannot help disliking people who make it more difficult than it absolutely needs to be. Note that this does not contradict TFA’s conclusions, unlike the previous point, and another argument in it is actually very close to (b); it’s this specific argument for the conclusion that I’m disagreeing with.<p>&gt; You know how every ToS ever has the “You are not allowed to use $SERVICE for illegal purposes” despite there being no convenient way to enforce that in computer code?<p>Yes I do, and I feel basically the same way about that as I do about stupid laws everybody tacitly agrees not to enforce: it erodes the whole edifice of a law&#x2F;bureaucracy-based Enlightenment society. If you’ve put it in writing and not planning to sue over violations, you’re lying to me.