Is 4shared illegal

Answer 1

I asked the same question in an email to support@4shared.com:

"Now, their is a question that's going around in everyone's mind.

Is your site safe and legal to download music from? I've read many things

saying either or, that your site strives to stay as legal as possible,

but isn't the people downloading music doing it illegally?

I've used your site before, I'm satisfied with it, but I was wondering

if its legal or not? If it isn't, can you please explain why it isn't?

If it is, can you explain how it is? Thank you very much. - Kyle"

This was their response:

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting us concerning your question.

4shared doesn't take the obligation to check the contents uploaded by our

users, so, things happen, sometimes you can find materials which are not

legal. As a rule, soon after illegal files are uploaded and added to our search

service results, we receive abuse reports from our users and deactivate the links

to the files.

In case you are not sure if the files you are going to download do not break some

copyright owner's proprietary rights, please do not download the files.

4shared declines all responsibility for the contents of the materials stored by

4shared users. Each and every user of 4shared is solely responsible for all

materials uploaded to his/her account.

We do not recommend you to download files from our service if you are not

sure whether these certain materials infringe the copyrights of others.

We would like to suggest that you consider files as suspicious if you feel

they might have copyright owners like artists, authors etc.

I hope this answers your question. In case you have any other questions,

please let us know. We will be glad to help you."

Answer 2

It is illegal for you to download paid apps for free on shared.com.