Red Swoosh is a very cool system that enables the downloading of a big file (like a video) to be distributed among all the people who already have it, so that the original publisher of the file ...

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online ...

My frustration lies in Kazaa, Direct Connect, the new Morpheus, whatever P2P client you wish not providing a good way to restrict searches to just those on the net who have university-level ...

Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he ...

How widespread and popular is file trading? Another P2P survey has been released indicating that about 35 million American adults use file-sharing software. That amounts to about 29% of Internet users ...

A presentation Friday in New York revealed the results of the tests, conducted with the collaboration of Pando Networks, a peer-assisted content delivery service provider, and Yale University, which ...

The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

Peer-to-peer network traffic is taking up more Internet bandwidth than any other application, according to figures released this week. CacheLogic, a UK network equipment maker, reported that ...

Wagner Resource Corp. recently learned the hard way what Pfizer Inc. and many other companies have similarly discovered in the past: installing peer-to-peer file-sharing software on corporate ...

The House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold a markup hearing Wednesday on a bill designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software. The Informed P2P User ...