4shared Official

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Founded in 2005, 4shared continues to gain popularity among online users throughout the world. With our service users can upload, store and download music, videos, photographs, and many others types of files and documents.

4shared provides its users with the highest-quality, free online hosting and sharing services. Our team is comprised of dedicated specialists, in the areas of programming, web design, and marketing communications.

4shared is an innovative, high-tech company, we develop useful software designed to make data storage and access easier and more intuitive to users everywhere.

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Location

United States

Employees

501-1000

Founded date

2005

Mentions in press and media 28

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Dec 5, 2016	4shared’s Piracy ‘Fingerprint’ Tool Helps to Reduce Takedown Notices	With millions of regular visitors, both via the web and through mobile apps, 4shared is one of the largest file-sharing services. As with many other sites in this niche, copyright holders often complain about the pirated files that are avai...
Nov 23, 2016	4shared: Copyright Holders Abuse Google’s DMCA Takedown System	As one of the largest online file-sharing services, 4shared is closely watched by copyright holders whose work is made available on the site. The site itself has a DMCA takedown procedure in place so rightsholders can remove files directly,...
Nov 5, 2016	Google Asked to Remove 50 Million 4shared Links	As one of the largest online file-sharing services, 4shared is closely watched by copyright holders whose work is made available on the site. The site itself has a DMCA takedown procedure in place so rightholders can remove files directly, ...
May 29, 2016	Ten Websites Hit With 70m DMCA Complaints in a Year	As 2016 nears its midway point the rhetoric over DMCA takedowns is more fiery than ever. Aware that a favorable change in the law might be possible sometime in the future, copyright holders are pushing the Copyright Office in the United Sta...
Apr 1, 2016	These music stars are taking the piracy fight to Capitol Hill	More On: piracy Make Google, Facebook pay for all the reporting they take for free Watch two giant sea lions 'steal' a sailboat Accused Somali pirate hauled before judge in Brooklyn, denied bail Streaming service VidAngel ordered ...
Feb 19, 2016	4shared Wins Court Case to Overcome Piracy Blockade	As one of the largest online file-sharing services 4shared is closely watched by copyright holders who find their content being made available on the site. Recently the site also became the target of an ISP blockade in South Korea, where it...
Dec 30, 2014	Top 10 Domains Hit By Google Piracy Takedowns 2014	As 2014 draws to a close it is notable that despite dozens of sites being blocked around Europe and millions of infringement notices going out to US-based Internet users, piracy appears to be just as prolific as it ever was. There appears t...
Dec 23, 2014	PSA: Kreezus Is The Perfect Holiday Mashup Of Kanye West’s Yeezus For Christmas	Have a long road trip ahead and not sure what to listen to? Having family over and need the perfect holiday tunes to entertain your guests? Maybe you’re just hanging out and want something to help get you in the mood for Christmas? I sugges...
Oct 20, 2014	4shared Demands Retraction Over Misleading Piracy Report	Last month the Digital Citizens Alliance and NetNames released a new report with the aim of exposing the business models and profitability of “rogue” file-storage sites. The report titled Behind The Cyberlocker Door: Behind The Cyberlocker ...
Aug 16, 2013	4Shared Uses Unique Fingerprinting Tech to Scan For Pirated Files	As one of the largest file-sharing services online 4shared is closely watched by copyright holders who vigorously try to scrub pirated files from the site. The file-hosting service offers a standard DMCA takedown procedure but recently deci...
Mar 31, 2013	The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse	Less than two years ago we published an overview of the most used file-sharing sites, covering both BitTorrent and traditional cyberlockers. At the time one-click download sites were beating BitTorrent sites by a landslide. However, the cyb...
Apr 20, 2012	David Cole on Tarek Mehanna	Georgetown law professor David Cole has this disturbing article in the New York Review of Books Blog on the Tarek Mehanna case. I have not followed this case carefully in the district court, but this article suggests that perhaps Lawfare ne...
Mar 10, 2012	Netkups: World’s First BitTorrent / Cyberlocker Hybrid?	BitTorrent sites and cyberlockers have a few things in common. Both have dozens of millions of users every day, and they also share the wrath of the entertainment industries. But, that’s generally where comparisons stop. The founders of the...
Jan 24, 2012	4Shared apaga arquivos suspeitos e deleta contas	O desligamento do Megaupload promovido pelo FBI na semana passada traz à tona a discussão sobre a legalidade de sites que propiciam o compartilhamento de arquivos. Ontem o Tecnoblog publicou que FileSonic junto a outros notáveis serviços do...
Jan 12, 2012	Why Artists Facebook	Facebook has already changed the way we communicate, creating virtual extensions of our real lives. Social networks are a microcosm of users’ social worlds and a continuation of offline behaviors. But that’s just for the regular folk – what...
Jan 4, 2012	4Shared Sued To Reveal Identify of Infringing Users	With 10 million registered users and more than 2.5 billion page views each month, 4Shared is believed to be the largest file-sharing website. Needless to say, a site of this size can’t possible avoid some of its users occasionally uploading...
Oct 19, 2011	How to Nab Free eBooks Using Google	Redeem now eBooks are an amazing thing, especially with Amazon's Kindle. What's irrtating about eBooks as that you have an infinite selection of books at your fingertips, but they all cost so much! Well, as always, Null Byte has a...
Aug 27, 2011	Top 10 Largest File-Sharing Sites	The Internet is the largest copying machine ever invented, and if we take a look at the massive amounts of traffic file-sharing sites get, millions of people are using it to its full extent. 4shared, the largest English language file-sharin...
Aug 9, 2011	Government To Block Sharing Sites, But Music Biz Must Cut Prices	In the United States, United Kingdom and parts of Europe, there is an increasing momentum from the copyright lobby in favor of legislation which allows for the blocking of file-sharing sites at the ISP level. Where new laws prove politicall...
Jan 11, 2011	Cyberlockers Take Over File-Sharing Lead From BitTorrent Sites	For more than half a decade, starting in the mid 2000s, BitTorrent sites dominated the file-sharing space. Early 2007 Mininova was the first BitTorrent site to earn a place among the top 100 most-visited sites on the Internet, and soon ther...
Nov 3, 2010	Lost And Forgotten CSS EPs Rediscovered [Download]	Nothing like a memory machine to help us deal with our fast-paced digital lives. Some of you may already be familiar with the Wayback Machine, an internet database that indexes and stores more than 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 t...
Jan 31, 2007	RAZR Gets An iPhone Theme	It’s understandable that someone would want to skin their smartphone with an iPhone skin while they wait for the real thing to drop. A number of iPhone themes have appeared and a few of them actually look decent. But a Motorola RAZR? I gues...
	Anti-Piracy Group Continued to Send DMCA Notices on Behalf of Indicted Copyright Swindlers	Piracy tracking firm MUSO aims to help rightsholders convert pirates into paying customers. This is a noble goal and the UK-based company doesn’t shy away from taking a stand. Earlier this week, we highlighted how MUSO linked the increased ...
	O show não pode parar: eventos para todo mundo acompanhar	Nestes últimos dias de agosto, pudemos acompanhar presencialmente ou pela web uma série de eventos brasileiros relacionados a web participativa. Uns foram mais segmentados, mas mesmo assim são relevantes em seus contextos. Isso significa qu...
	Украинский файлообменник стал 4 в мире по популярности	Украинский файлообменник стал 4 в мире по популярности 02 апреля, 2013, 13:15 Майя Яровая 19779 2 © Shutterstock Файлообменник 4shared, основанный в 2005 году Алексеем Луньковым и Сергеем Чудновским в Киеве, стал четвертым по популярности с...
	Bate-papo com Apontador, startup brasileira em destaque no Vale do Silício	Há 10 anos, Rafael Siqueira inovou na empresa onde trabalhava. Viu perspectiva, saiu, montou equipe, prototipou, conquistou investimento e tem em seu portfolio produtos e clientes dos mais diversos – incluindo gigantes como o Google. Esta s...
	Como usar o 4shared (e encontrar tudo o que você precisa)	O 4shared é um serviço de hospedagem e compartilhamento de arquivos na nuvem, que oferece pacotes gratuitos e pagos para os usuários salvarem arquivos. Porém, ele conta com uma funcionalidade que concorrentes não possuem: um motor de busca ...

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When was 4shared Official founded?

4shared Official was founded in 2005.

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Parsers VC has collected 28 articles mentioning 4shared Official, among them “4shared’s Piracy ‘Fingerprint’ Tool Helps to Reduce Takedown Notices” (Dec 5, 2016) and “4shared: Copyright Holders Abuse Google’s DMCA Takedown System” (Nov 23, 2016).

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Yes, 4shared Official is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 16, 2022.