Ever wonder how your friends have all the latest music blaring on their iPods while you're still trying to get your hands on the CD? Or how they managed to get the coolest videos right on their PC, ...

Over the last few years, the popularity of peer-to-peer filesharing has exploded, leaving widespread filesharing lawsuits and traffic management policies in its wake. But the same features that allow ...

Company will reveal test results indicating it could reduce the impact of peer-to-peer traffic on its network by more than 50 percent by "intelligently" routing such traffic. Marguerite Reardon ...

Linux software seller Lindows.com announced it plans to distribute its LindowsLive operating system for free via peer-to-peer networks. LindowsLive allows people to run a Linux-based operating system ...

Just two weeks after a judge ordered LimeWire to shut down its P2P operations, a pirated version of the file-sharing client has appeared online. By Glenn Peoples Just two weeks after a judge ordered ...

Engineeers have discovered a way for peer-to-peer (P2P) users to efficiently identify nearby P2P clients in order to reduce costly cross-network traffic without sacrificing performance for the user.

Reid Burch, network services manager for the Promina Southern Regional Health System hospital near Atlanta, was having a problem with slow networks early this year. Applications were poky, pipes were ...

Tokyo University research associate Isamu Kaneko, creator of popular Japanese file-sharing program Winny, pleaded not guilty on Sept. 1 to charges of copyright violation in Kyoto District Court. By ...

Apple Computer has forced a developer to stop distributing a plug-in that turned its iTunes music player into peer-to-peer music-sharing software. The plug-in, called iCommune, allowed iTunes users to ...