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And the very next paragraph

  You have a 180-day grace period
  to either delete content to
  bring your total content
  within the free quota, or to
  sign up for a paid storage plan.
  After 180 days in an over-quota
  status, content will be deleted
  (starting with the most recent
  uploads first) until your
  account is no longer over quota

So if you have more than 30TB stored (the new maximum), you have 189 days after your current subscription expires to get it off before it's auto deleted.

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Out of curiosity, what would you expect them to do with your data if you don't have a subscription? Keep it forever?

being that you put that data there with the understanding that you could keep it forever - yes...

You expect a company to continue to provide a service for you after you stop paying them?

I expect a company to abide by the terms of the deal that I entered into, not to change the deal. Pray that they do not alter it further.

The deal that you entered into had a set duration, and it was only binding for a set period of time for which you paid for. Once the money/time runs out, you'll need to renegotiate a deal, which Amazon has done.

From amazon's release: "Current customers will keep their existing unlimited storage plan through its expiration date."

Which means they are honoring the deal and not altering it and are abiding by the terms agreed to.

Six months is a generous time limit; I can think of dozens of services I've used in the past who changed their terms or went out of business, and the customer was given 30 days or less to migrate.

I'm not trying to be an Amazon apologist, just being realistic.

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