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Google Docs To Host Any File Type

Posted by kdawson on from the not-the-g-drive dept.

ezabi writes "According to a post on the official Google blog, in the coming weeks Google Docs will offer to host all file types with a limit of 250 MB, which as they say is larger than the current limit for email attachments. This will have its consequences: paid file sharing will die, more shared pirated material, newer vulnerabilities and malware distribution channels..."

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  1. Re:What? by PCM2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nah, and it's also arbitrary. If it supported files up to 350MB, that might be big enough to fit an hour-long TV program encoded in MPEG-4 using typical TV-trader settings. That would open up more copyright issues for Google, so one easy stopgap is to limit the maximum file size. Mind you, this won't stop anyone from uploading RAR sets, but at least people won't be streaming those direct from Google Docs.

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