> So it's ok if someone takes your car the next time you park on a free parking lot? Not the best analogy since the parking lot is just an empty physical space

> So it's ok if someone takes your car the next time you park on a free parking lot? Not the best analogy since the parking lot is just an empty physical space. Taking it away wouldn’t also “delete” your car. The car is actually a separate physical object. But in a cloud drive, the file and the space are the same. Taking away the space is obviously going to take away the file. On top of all that, the file still exists elsewhere for most people.