| 4shared | |
| Type: | File hosting |
| Language: | English, German, Russian, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Turkish |
| Founded: | 2005 |
| Screenshot Alt: | Screenshot of an audio file's download page on 4shared |
| Collapsible: | y |
| Commercial: | Yes |
| Launch Date: | 2005 |
| Headquarters: | Kyiv, Ukraine |
4shared, also known as 4shared.com, is a file-sharing website.
4shared supports the WebDAV, FTP, and SFTP protocols, in addition to having a web interface. 4shared is a freemium service, with significant usage limitations on non-paying users, such as a daily bandwidth limit of 3 GB.[1]
In 2011, 4shared was ranked the largest file-sharing website, beating out others such as Megaupload and MediaFire.[2]
The site was labelled as a notorious market in 2016: "While 4shared provides legitimate file-storage services, the site also facilitates the streaming and downloading of high volumes of allegedly pirated videos, music, books, and video games."[3]
In 2019, 4shared's Android app was discovered to be serving invisible advertisements to users, and automatically signing them up for unwanted services. The app was replaced with a non-malicious version on April of the same year, after being removed on Google Play.[4]