The average size of files being shared over peer-to-peer networks has more than doubled since 2002. It's a fact that reflects the types of media being digitized and shared nowadays, and is likely to ...

Peer-to-peer file sharing, or P2P, has become enormously popular on college campuses across the country because it allows students to easily exchange music and video files over the Internet. Tens of ...

One of the nation’s largest Internet service providers (ISP), Verizon Communications, is working to make peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks more efficient for transferring large files than ever ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Peer-to-Peer file sharing is an exciting technology for delivering big content files to users who ...

NEW YORK -- Peer-to-peer file sharing, the primary vehicle for online piracy, has been as unpopular with Internet service providers as it has been popular with users. Providers have banned, blocked or ...

Red Swoosh is a very cool system that enables the downloading of a big file (like a video) to be distributed among all the people who already have it, so that the original publisher of the file ...

The debate about whether peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, which were first made popular with the Napster file-sharing network, should be legitimate or illegitimate continues to rage. On one side are ...

The IFPI and national trade groups have launched legal cases against 963 individuals in 10 European countries and Japan, alleging that the defendants downloaded or uploaded illegal music files from… ...

A new file-sharing system could make downloading large data files such as movies and music as much as five times faster, say U.S. researchers who developed the technology. Computer scientists at ...