Somewhat misleading headline

I agree with the above, they're hardly downgrading a service, they're offering an additional benefit should you require it... previously if you managed to fill the large space allowance, granted for free, you were stuck.. now you can increase it - i personally see this as a good move.

As for the plan of starting your own online storage system, good luck - if only it were that simple!!! I'd be interested to hear the details of your complex backup and data redundancy package... i mean ensuring against failing hard drives on both live and backup system can't be cheap...