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 ...

Peer-to-Peer file sharing is an exciting technology for delivering big content files to users who are distributed around a network. In contrast to traditional file servers, where large amounts 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 ...

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 ...

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 network traffic is taking up more Internet bandwidth than any other application, according to figures released this week. CacheLogic, a UK network equipment maker, reported that ...

The first peer-to-peer software allowing users to vote on the reliability of a file could thwart spammers – but it might also help illegal file sharers dodge decoys deployed by the record and movie ...

Is Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson crazy? As Nesson himself admits, "this does seem to be a question on many people's minds." In our recent conversation with Nesson, the professor said he hopes ...