Yes, there is the potential of an rsync.net account being used as a "seedbox" - as the young people call it.
However, even our discounted pricing is more expensive than the cutthroat seedbox provider pricing that we see out in the world - so I think serious folks will use rsync.net accounts for brokering data like this, but the datahoarder crowd will store their petabytes elsewhere.
Also, we have recently turned up multiple 10gb pipes at he.net which we found to be very affordable in 2021 so, at least for now, we have bandwidth to spare ...
However, even our discounted pricing is more expensive than the cutthroat seedbox provider pricing that we see out in the world - so I think serious folks will use rsync.net accounts for brokering data like this, but the datahoarder crowd will store their petabytes elsewhere.
Also, we have recently turned up multiple 10gb pipes at he.net which we found to be very affordable in 2021 so, at least for now, we have bandwidth to spare ...