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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more people are using peer-to-peer (P2P) software to move information across the Internet. Although it has useful applications, P2P technology can be a dangerous thing. P2P programs enable ...

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 ...

A Utah-based debt collection agency has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it exposed sensitive information on its computers and networks to security risks by failing to ...

TYPICAL. You fight tooth and nail to bury a technology, arrest almost 3000 people using it for nefarious purposes, and then along comes some smart alec who says you got it all wrong. The same ...

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 ...

Oversight committee chair also pledges an investigation into whether vendors can be held responsible for failing to install adequate privacy safeguards. The leader of a House oversight panel on ...

Peer-to-peer file-sharing software developers say user privacy-protection concerns are behind the introduction of features designed to foil scanning by organisations representing owners of ...

Popular, commercially available file-sharing programs would be generally banned from federal systems under a bill proposed in the House. Government employees and contractors would generally be ...