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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"In a bid to persuade the music industry that P2P networks can encourage legal file-sharing, P2P companies today claimed that more people have bought tracks from Heart's new album, 'Jupiter's Darling' ...

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.

WASHINGTON--A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in ...

PairDrop has made my daily file transfers a breeze instead of a bluster.

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 ...

Microsoft recently released software tools for Windows XP that are intended to encourage the creation of P2P applications. The software development kit also offers an update to Windows XP that ...

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 ...