This article is for all those hard working office people who are now getting used to/ surrendering to the concept of working from home every weekday and manage their life with whatever time is left – because long working hours. Duh!
One of the biggest challenges of working from home is sharing files with your team members. Especially when you’re working on a presentation or working for a production house or design studio, there are multiple files – mostly heavy in size which needs to be shared on an on-going basis. For this, we all have turned to WeTransfer – world’s popular file sharing platform.
And WeTransfer worked seamlessly for us. It helped in transferring the files, UI is easy to use and navigate, no sign in was required and anyone can access it. The best thing about the platform is that it doesn’t even store your files for more than 7 days. So you don’t have to worry about deleting files or anything. But then our Department of Telecommunication (DoT) banned this wonderful and helpful site. In an order dated May 18, 2020, DoT directed the internet service providers (ISP) to ban 3 URLs citing national security and public interest concerns. The 2 URLs were specific WeTransfer pages but the 3rd URL was the main site page: wetransfer.com itself.
Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), digital rights group was in the forefront to challenge the ban and cited it as an example of having a larger issue of lack of transparency. You can read this news article on IFF’s view on WeTransfer ban.
However, it’s now clear and official that WeTransfer site is up and running on all the major ISPs. The twitter handle of Department of Telecommunication in its tweet confirmed the site’s accessibility to Indian users.
In fact, today’s issue with Gmail, wherein the users complained of not being able to send or receive mails or attach files, may have given a boost to WeTransfer usage. If you are one of those who thought WeTransfer is still banned and haven’t used the site for weeks, go ahead and try it now. You’ll be happy with the result.
Just an Inquisitive Soul 
Thanks for this informative article – I’ve often used this platform and it works like a charm! Truly a very helpful application indeed.
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Ok. I did not know of it. Will have a try since nowadays it is a mandatory job now.
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I own a digital agency and with the WFH situation, WeTransfer is our go-to for transferring large files. Thank God its working again!
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I use we transfer extensively and I amazed by the speed of the transfer also the security surrounding it. Even I would recommend it for easy file transfers.
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I use this extensively to share my content work across the world. Cant imagine working with Wetransfer at all!
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I think you mean ‘without’ 🙂 In which case I agree… WeTransfer is really helpful in transferring files. In my marketing role, it’s a big help.
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WeTransfer has become an important tech that enables a user to send large files to other users. And we always use to transfer big files. Good to heard that now we transfer is accessible again.
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Yeah. It’s such a big help especially for transferring footage and presentations to my team members and client. Happy that it’s back.
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One of the most important sites for every corporate and individuals. I don’t remember since when I started using we transfer and still loving it.
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Me too.. I’ve been using it for years now. And when it got banned and I had to upload content on other similar sites, it was a little annoying. WeTransfer has such a nice clean interface. I’m glad it’s back.
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Thank you for sharing this info with us. I am working from home nowadays and data transfer is a huge headache. I am sure this will help me out. Will try it
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Hey do try. It’s fast and really easy to use. I usually opt to transfer with a link instead of entering all the email ids and stuff. See if you want to try the same.
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