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 ...

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 networks are cozying up to marketers in a bid to profit from the millions of Internet users migrating to their hubs from Napster--but can they walk the tightrope between pulling in ...

Concerned that too many peer-to-peer software users don't know what they're installing and what they're sharing, the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed the "Informed P2P User Act" ...

The Federal Trade Commission and Distributed Computing Industry Association locked horns over a proposed law that would govern peer-to-peer networking technology would be used and regulated. Before ...

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 ...

Unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing on corporate networks appears to be far more widespread than many companies realize. In a study of P2P file sharing at 560 companies, Ottawa-based AssetMetrix ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 ...

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 ...

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT. Anyone who has dabbled with asking friends and contacts for a VPN recommendation will have ...