The growth rate for illegal downloading of copyrighted material via peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services slowed during 2006, while use of their legal counterparts picked up, according to recent ...

Dean Hendrix, senior assistant librarian for the Health Sciences Library, leads workshops on the topic of peer-to-peer file sharing for the Teaching and Learning Center. Yes, in file-sharing ...

The number of consumers using peer-to-peer (P2P) services to download music declined 17 percent between 2011 and 2012. As a result, the volume of illegally downloaded music files from P2P services ...

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 ...

My frustration lies in Kazaa, Direct Connect, the new Morpheus, whatever P2P client you wish not providing a good way to restrict searches to just those on the net who have university-level ...

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 ...

For a number of years, file sharing has been the bane of the lives of musicians, movie producers and media companies alike. From Napster and Limewire through to torrent sharing sites like The Pirate ...

A presentation Friday in New York revealed the results of the tests, conducted with the collaboration of Pando Networks, a peer-assisted content delivery service provider, and Yale University, which ...

The Washington Post published an alarming story today about the risk to company computer networks from employees who visit file sharing sites to acquire music, software or videos for personal use.

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 ...

In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled software company’s controversial Peer-to-Peer file sharing software. In ...