Concerned that too many peer-to-peer software users don't know what they're installing and what they're sharing, the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed the "Informed P2P User Act" ...

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 ...

A Web site owner who deceptively claimed that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs who joined his Web site would be able to transfer copyrighted materials without violating the law has ...

Oversight committee chair also pledges an investigation into whether vendors can be held responsible for failing to install adequate privacy safeguards. The leader of a House oversight panel on ...

Popular, commercially available file-sharing programs would be generally banned from federal systems under a bill proposed in the House. Government employees and contractors would generally be ...

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.

Peer-to-peer software vendors must re-engineer their software to prevent illegal file trading, and they must do a better job of warning users of the dangers of trading illegal files, said a letter ...

To demonstrate the futility of trying to ban peer-to-peer networks, a computer scientist has written the shortest P2P program ever In a bid to demonstrate the futility of trying to ban peer-to-peer ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

In the letters, the FTC warned schools, businesses and local governments that widespread data leaks occurred after their employees swapped music via P2P networks, which exposed copious personal ...