Aside from Google’s march towards 6 GB, the other big email news of the day has to be AOL’s Web Suite email now allowing you to send attachments of up to 5 GB – yes gigabytes.

Using their online storage system Xdrive – which gives you 5 GB of storage for free – any file larger than 16 MB now automatically gets sent to Xdrive to be sent from there. While Download Squad notes that it doesn’t work that great yet for all file types, it is certainly a step in the right direction.

Worries such as movie and game piracy are no doubt a concern, but there are already quite a few other options that any pirate could use to do the same thing. Gmail currently has a file size limit of 20 MB and it’ll be interesting to see if when their Google Drive online storage comes out they do a similar combination of the services to allow for huge file transfers.

[via Mashable]