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Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He did pay for the service though. They just decided to stop charging him for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So, he paid for a period. Then the product was discontinued and they stopped charging him. So from then on, no he wasn't paying. Google didn't have to change it to read only, they could have just given notice and deleted it then.

Should they have made it clearer that the read only mode was a limited time thing and the data would be deleted at the end of that? Very probably.