What's really stupid about this is that it would have been less effort and expense for everyone involved if Google had arranged to work with Archive Team directly instead of forcing them to scrape content via HTTP over the public internet. That includes Google themselves. What's happening now is probably that they're ramping down the number of servers handling Google+ content, which they could have done even sooner if they'd cooperated on a proper archiving strategy.

I guess sometimes Google does this kind of crap just to prove (mostly to themselves) that they can. Truly, the bully of the internet.