Computer files

Ah, Megaupload, the long-defunct file-sharing site that definitely wasn’t a haven for piracy during the mid-2000s. If you were hoping to catch up with what some of its leaders were doing after feds seized the domain in 2012, then you’ll have to do it during prison visitation. On Thursday, a New Zealand court sentenced two of the original operators of Megaupload to more than two years in prison over allegations they facilitated piracy and theft of intellectual property.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessAs reported by the…

Google has established a file creation limit on Drive that caps the number of files you can create per account at five million. The company apparently implemented the new limit in February with no prior notice, but did not announce it publicly. It is in place for all Google Workspace users, regardless of whether you pay for extra storage, several publications including Ars Technica and CNET reported. Several users unceremoniously learned of the change when they realized they could no longer upload files…

When you capture a screenshot and crop out sensitive information, it’s still possible to recover a portion of the image that was supposedly removed in some circumstances. This isn’t the first time redacted documents have turned out to have left hidden data intact and readable with the right tools and knowledge. A recent bug in Google’s Markup tool for the Pixel phone, humorously dubbed the “Acropalypse,” shows this issue might be surprisingly common. In a comment on the tweet about the Pixel bug, Chris…

Most file formats, extensions, and codecs are easy enough to recognize, but one of the lesser-known ones that you might come across is Xvid (which in terms of capitalization can be styled in a number of ways). It’s essentially a way of compressing video, and it’s been around since 2001—and here we’re going to explain everything you need to know about Xvid files. Because, despite their age, you might need to know about them for certain kinds of work.What are video formats and codecs?Every video has a format and a…

Megaupload founder Kim DotcomPhoto: Hannah Peters (Getty Images)Remember Mega, the encrypted cloud storage company? No? Well, maybe you remember its predecessor, Megaupload, the file hosting provider that was accused of acting as a haven for licensing pirates during the mid-2000s and was subsequently shuttered by authorities. Prior to its shutdown, Megaupload was thought of as the premiere site for people who wanted to flout intellectual property law, until the feds took it down in a spasm of regulatory vengeance. It…