Make your light file sharing website

Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive are the top-rated free file hosting and sharing services of the bunch; however, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Consider your budget, storage space and security requirements, and access control.

What to Know. Peer-to-peer file-sharing technology is not itself illegal, but what you share and how you share it may be. When you upload or distribute copies you make of copyrighted works, or when you download or acquire unlicensed copies of copyrighted works, you may be infringing someone elseʼs rights.

In the file-sharing context, downloading or uploading substantial parts of a copyrighted work without authority constitutes an infringement. Penalties for copyright infringement include civil and criminal penalties.

Downloading a file through a P2P network is generally riskier than downloading it from a website. This is because some files on P2P networks could carry viruses or other malwaremalicious actors bundle content with online threats such as spyware, Trojan horses, or worms.

Creating a file share Create a local folder on your server computer. Right click the folder, and then click Properties. Click the Sharing tab, and then click Share. Enter the name of your Windows user, and click Add. In the Permission level column, select Read/Write, then click Share.

Illegal file sharing involves the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials, such as music, movies, software, and books, which infringes on the rights of the intellectual property owners.

You can share the files and folders that you store in Google Drive with anyone. When you share from Google Drive, you can control whether people can edit, comment on or only view the file.