What a pathetic title...

So according the the title of the article, the pioneer in decent, free mailbox and storage size on the internet, will now "start charging for storage".

Er, no - if I am reading the terms correctly, Google will now allow you a paid upgrade from the large storage they have always offered, which remains free. This strikes me as an additional service, rather than a reduction of service or charging for something that was once free. Pathetic attempt at a muckraking headline, El Reg writers...

And it appears that someone in this thread has mistaken "harddrive" for "storage"...the two are not synonomous except under the most simple of uses...