I don't think they need to justify themselves morally....

A giant company said it was unlimited and people took them at their word. That isn't a 'loophole' or a 'moral' decision.

> exploiting an “unlimited” storage loophole forever is somehow morally justifiable.

this isn't a mom and pa business people are "exploiting"

and by "exploiting", I mean exercising their rights under the contract the multi-billion dollar huge multi-national wrote

These are single line users trying to exploit giant Corp. Yes that is exploitation too. They are not business users. They are exploiters trying to get the same benefit that someone with general use cases is offered.

If restaurant offers a person an all you can eat buffet, and that person sits for 4 hours in an online eating competition, that person definitely has abused the offer made. Doesn't matter the contract's fine print.

> Doesn't matter the contract's fine print.

of course it does, this is the entire basis of Western business

you write contract that benefits the other party more than yourself? well, tough shit

the company offered unlimited storage in a freely offered contract in exchange for money

their counterparty paid them and is expecting to have unlimited storage to use

the only person being immoral here is the entity that marketed their service as unlimited when they had no intention of providing it

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you have a complete misunderstanding of how contracts work in common law countries

I know about that subreddit but I'm still shocked at how you can stuff cloud storage to that amount, given upload speeds, shared links, throttling, etc. It must've taken ages to upload over a 100 TB, not to mention 2 PB.

google is exploiting their elasticity to avoid providing a concrete number and making any kind of fair competition impossible with companies that need to be profitable to remain in business.

this typical modus operandi of giving away stuff for free or at a loss until everyone is dead, the ground is salted and nothing grows, is toxic and bad for end users.