The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of ...

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 ...

The number of consumers using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music declined 17 percent between 2011 and 2012. As a result, the volume of illegally downloaded music files from P2P services ...

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.

The Washington Post published an alarming story today about the risk to company computer networks from employees who visit file sharing sites to acquire music, software or videos for personal use.

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 ...

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 ...

In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company’s controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. In ...

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 ...

In brief: Ownership of Napster is changing hands once again. The company, which started life as a peer-to-peer file sharing service more than 25 years ago, is being purchased by Infinite Reality for ...

Web 2.0 file-sharing service is bringing free peer-to-peer private file sharing to the U.S. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers ...

Tiversa, a security company based in Cranberry Township, Pa., reported that a security breach last summer exposed military information to an IP address in Tehran, Iran, that included engineering ...