When Missouri University of Science & Technology recently installed new bandwidth management hardware, Systems Security Analyst Karl Lutzen hit upon a novel idea for using the system to cut down on ...

The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of ...

Peer-to-Peer file sharing is an exciting technology for delivering big content files to users who are distributed around a network. In contrast to traditional file servers, where large amounts of ...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing applications allow users to download and share electronic files of all types and to use any computer as a server for file sharing requests. Currently, some of the more ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Alliance, a free, open-source, cross-platform peer-to-peer application, takes nearly all of the security and privacy concerns out of peer-to-peer file sharing by ...

Is Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson crazy? As Nesson himself admits, "this does seem to be a question on many people's minds." In our recent conversation with Nesson, the professor said he hopes ...

As if RIAA and the MPAA didn't give us enough reasons to ban file-sharing traffic in our schools, the FTC has contacted over 100 organizations (including several schools) who inadvertently released ...

Every semester brings new technological challenges to the staff at the University of Florida, and September 2003 was no different from the norm. Students flocked to campus after a summer of freedom, ...

Security 2016: What to Expect in the New Year Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and the downloading of illegal content might be synonymous with Napster, appearing to be a technology that is ancient ...

When it comes to peer-to-peer file sharing, there's always been a kind of love-hate relationship between the technology world and systems such as BitTorrent and the like. Content owners tentatively ...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee this week passed passed the Informed P2P User Act, which is designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. The bill ...