It was Google who set the price and service limit, not him, so I don’t think there’s any room here to argue that the price he was paying was unfairly low.
He probably wouldn’t have been able to even if he wanted (barring using multiple accounts, which comes with its own problems, including an increased risk of Google taking it as a reason to shut the accounts down).
You do see but you're choosing to make an argument for the sake of "sticking it to MegaCorp" or something similar.
Every single person who had these 100+ TB plans knew it was unsustainable. When you have that much data you know how much it costs for hard drives to store that much data.
If the article had actually stated the amount the guy paid per month (what,$20-$60?) everyone would know that he should've known this was coming.
"Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account."
I don't see how can this be seen as "taking advantage of a system".