A software company and its parent are claiming they hold patent rights to widely used Internet song-swapping technology, and they are demanding that several file-sharing networks obtain licenses in ...

I live in an apartment with two other people, and we want to network our computers together for the purpose of file sharing. We want the option of adding computers (notebooks) on the network ...

Worse yet, Internet criminals know this, and they are data-mining filesharing networks,” While Mark Gorton, chairman of LimeWire LLC, said his company “takes the problem of inadvertent file-sharing ...

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.

When technicians from Palo Alto Networks installed one of the company’s firewalls in a Fortune 100 company, they were surprised when the device began examining a massive data stream in and out of the ...

Decentralized file sharing — using blockchain technology to share data without depending on a centralized server — is often praised for its redundancy, security and censorship resistance. Yet, despite ...

Netflix isn't just sailing ahead of competitors like Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube in the downstream market—it's starkly cutting traffic to BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, ...

LOS ANGELES – The American film industry is preparing to sue computer server operators in America and Europe who help relay digitized movie files across online file-sharing networks, a source familiar ...

In this, the Daily's final installment on the issue of file-sharing, we weigh the advantages and disadvantages of various legal alternatives and discuss the effects of file-sharing on American ...

More people are now using illicit file-sharing networks to download and stream unauthorised versions of TV programming, new research has revealed. Visitors using so-called torrent sites have doubled ...

As centralized clouds and traditional decentralized solutions face limitations, a new approach to file-sharing enhances data security, scalability and control. Decentralization is a core principle ...