File-Sharing Network Thrives Beneath the Radar
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice.
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent  has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the  Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking  notice.
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Napster creator Shawn Fanning introduces a new licensed file-sharing service with unlimited choice of tracks.
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Today, "Peer to Peer" (P2P) is inextricably linked to file sharing. But another "P2P" was once the subject of great buzz.
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A new agreement between a peer-to-peer network and the major music labels has created the first peer-to-peer file sharing network for licensed digital music.
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Single click porn, blockbusters, and TV shows Here comes BitTorrent 2.0. Researchers at the Delft University of Technology and De Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam recently unveiled the latest version of a new-age BitTorrent client known as Tribler, part of an effort to "move P2P to the next generation".â¦
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Ads and adware have a new way to get on your computer--through files that appear to be music and video.
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Kazaa and Grokster, which belongs to the large FastTrack network, uses the UUHash hashing mechanism to verify files. Its main advantage is that it allows large files to be checked very quickly.
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Napster was a revolutionary product. It practically gave birth to the p2p industry on the Internet. It has lead to a stage that big corporations of the music industry are practically scared of losing a major chunk of their business from this phenomenon.
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What is "reasonable network management"? At long last, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will investigate claims that Comcast has put a choke hold on P2P file-sharing traffic.â¦
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There is something rather antiquated about many of the server clusters used today by engineers, scientists and media fiends. Their high-powered computing machines are often cobbled together over many days
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Two of the netâs most widely used programs, Kazaa - a peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing application â-nd Skype â -2P internet phone application, have teamed up.
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Preliminary results of a study on peer-to-peer file sharing show that on the average, the technology still makes up anywhere between 50 and 90 percent of Internet traffic, with BitTorrent surging in popularity.
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With a new CEO, a new protocol that allows video to play while it downloads, and a new business providing file distribution services to content companies, BitTorrent is ready to go legit. But can it succeed where other peer-to-peer companies have failed?
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Businesses that think their employees aren&#39;t using IM or some type of peer-to-peer file sharing application may be living in ignorant bliss.
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Grokster, one of the best-known P2P services (at least one of the best-known by the RIAA &amp; co), has taken yet another step in its path to make its P2P service to please the record labels by teaming up with a start-up called Mercora to provide an artist
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The latest twist in a landmark file-sharing case could lead to a world where open wireless networks constitute a legal liability. In Listening Post.