The number of people using peer-to-peer systems for sharing music and other files online dropped, as more people download files from iPods and other digital music devices, according to the Pew ...

BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

File-sharing through the dozens of software piracy mills on the Internet and well-known peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa, Morpheus, iMesh, eDonkey, Gnutella, LimeWire and Grokster accounts for ...

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 ...

Why it matters: There are a lot of risks associated with peer-to-peer file sharing that justifiably concern US universities. These networks can lead to security issues, they consume a lot of bandwidth ...