Before the theatrical release of a recent movie, a digital copy of the film was leaked onto the Internet. The media company where the leak occurred scrambled to figure out how the movie was released.

Installing the latest peer-to-peer application? Then, you'd better be ready for a few hitchhikers. A survey performed by anti-spyware researcher Ben Edelman and others found that three out of the five ...

Back in the day, IIRC, Crashplan offered free "peer" backup; you exchange USB hard drives with a buddy, Crashplan backed up to the remote USB drive over the Internet, with encryption. This meant very ...

Peer-to-peer software specialist Groove Networks on Monday will release a new version of its collaboration and instant messaging software. Version 2.0 of the Groove software includes tools for ...

Six peer-to-peer software vendors have launched a counterattack against the music industry by calling on Congress to force a different solution to the trading of copyrighted songs than what the P2P ...

Congressmen raised concerns over whether peer-to-peer networks are exposing users’ personal information, but witnesses at a House Committee on Government Reform hearing Thursday produced little ...

Typically, campus users of peer-to-peer software can just type in the title of a hit song, get a list of computer users who have a copy, and then download the track to their own music collections -- ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...