You’re completely ignoring the actual technical details of the bug and just assuming that cloud companies will happily keep every 100GB 4K video that users uplo

You’re completely ignoring the actual technical details of the bug and just assuming that cloud companies will happily keep every 100GB 4K video that users upload and subsequently delete even when the user isn’t paying for it. And they’ll just keep it for some kind of vague tin foil hat “make money off your data” reason. Yeah, Facebook does that to some extent, with content that is heavily compressed in the first place, but it’s also likely they clean out information like that once they have the metadata that is valuable for advertisers or once the information becomes stale. Data that has no commercial value is actively costing the company money. Facebook is pretty upfront about this. They delete some of it…”some” presumably being the data that is worthless to them: https://www.facebook.com/help/356107851084108 https://www.facebook.com/help/356107851084108 With cloud storage providers that charge by the gigabyte and store originals that have not been compressed further, every gigabyte of data that is being allocated and not paid for is unwanted COGS. Cloud companies would be bankrupt by now if your theory was the case.