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As with any subscription, there is a time bound to it, after which either side can refuse to renew it. The account was never "unlimited for life". Let's assume
by amf12 3y ago
As with any subscription, there is a time bound to it, after which either side can refuse to renew it. The account was never "unlimited for life".
Let's assume it's AWS storage. After you stop paying (renewing) would you still expect to keep your data forever free of cost?
- crooked-v 3y ago> after you stop paying The difference here is that Google was the one who fired him as a customer, and did so on a timeframe tight enough to make it functionally impossible to actually get all his data back.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoAs mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the "firing of the customer" (i.e. the cancellation of the subscription by Google) occurred >6 months before any actual deletion of the data. The alert that data would be deleted occurred 7 days before. It's difficult to argue that he couldn't have seen this coming.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>It's difficult to argue that he couldn't have seen this coming. around the same time the FBI raided him. I imagine he was quite busy as is. And there's a difference between "he should have seen this coming" and "he should have seen his data being deleted coming a week after the grace period with no wrning until the week before."