> If you go legal every time someone abuses a free trial you might as well give up free trials.

What silly "all or nothing" thinking.

You don't have to "go legal" on every free trial abuse, just the egregious ones. Here we have a company that's been abusing the free trial for 10 years and 1000s of instances. Vates rightfully can claim millions (~40M to be exact) from this instance. The company, in particular, can't claim they didn't know this wasn't allowed because they automated creating fake email accounts to abuse the situation.

It's particularly more egregious because Vates allows companies to build and maintain the software directly without support for free.