Google wants us to pay for more storage, are you kidding me?
First and foremost with the myriad of online storage services that are free, why would anyone pay for more storage of email attachments or whatever. Personally, why would anyone be storing 10GB of attachments in email anyway. For those that do, well just setup another gmail account, forward archived messages with those huge attachments to the new address and delete them from the original. Seems easier than giving Google $20 month for an additioanl 6GB.
And now to the real point; Paying Google… I wouldn’t give an extra cent to them. Not only are they making money hand over fist, but they willingly ignore and excuse copyright infringement. All while voicing an absurd arrogance that the new class action suit is a misinterpretation of laws by the people joining on. Are you serious? Is Google really the “do no evil” company telling what definitively amounts to many excellent legal scholars that it is them that do not understand laws regarding copyright infringement. Give me a break! I hope they are taken for billions. Here is a company that pretends to embrace open source, yet files software patents like the worlds coming to an end. Then tells everyone they are wrong, and that nothing they do regarding You Tube is illegal. Then, touting a coming copyright infringement smart system designed to prevent the material in question from being processed. As we all know, give a good hacker a reason, then consider the lock broken. They know and simply do not care that a majority of their revenue comes from contextual advertising on pages with copyrighted material as the viewing driver.
I have no problem with Google making money, a business like no other. And, within reason they provide some excellent services. But, and that is a huge BUTT, they are doing it while pretending to be a semi-altruistic, earth loving, energy conserving, for the people corp. Which for most intelligent people, in its simplest form is an insult.
For those interested in paying google for more storage here is the breakdown.
* 6 GB ($20.00 per year)
* 25 GB ($75.00 per year)
* 100 GB ($250.00 per year)
* 250 GB ($500.00 per year)
(Note: Initially, the price for the 6 GB option was $1, but Google quickly changed it to $20.)
