Data collected from a six-month study of Internet traffic shows that the exchange of films and software is booming, and that the vast majority of peer-to-peer traffic is made up of files larger than 100MB.
The Recording Industry Association of America filed a new round of lawsuits against anonymous computer users on Thursday, alleging they had illegally traded copyrighted files through peer-to-peer networks.
Sun Microsystems has announced it will extend its Jxta peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol for use with handheld devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.
Illegal downloads are still beating legal online music, analysts have found.
Microsoft is working on its own file-sharing application, code-named Avalanche.
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Prevent P2P problems on your network by preparing for security threats from programs such as Napster and KaZaa.
M-Terra CTO Darrell Smith says that arguments in the peer-to-peer file-sharing space are still based on days gone by.
Researchers think computers that "gossip" with each other are key to filtering out ads -- and piracy-fighting decoys -- on P2P networks.
Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.
In the shark-infested world of peer-to-peer file sharing BearShare is an unobtrusive delight, marred only by a low success rate in downloading files.
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Microsoft is beefing up the peer-to-peer capabilities for its Windows XP operating system.
Microsoft introduced additions to Windows XP designed to make the operating system better tuned for peer-to-peer applications.
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