by clicking the button to enter nearmaps which says 'I'm a private user' which is what everyone did when it first started up, you were basically agreeing to the terms and conditions, which stated, that you were limited to 100,000 tiles per month.

Problem is, companies that have one IP for multiple offices, ie: all internet connections based in one spot, like my company, we are not 'private users' thus, we should have been paying a subscription fee from the beginning

I believe a corporate subscription is about $150,000 a year. Some councils in WA have already signed up to it, thus they are free to use it at will