The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

I live in an apartment with two other people, and we want to network our computers together for the purpose of file sharing. We want the option of adding computers (notebooks) on the network ...

In this, the Daily's final installment on the issue of file-sharing, we weigh the advantages and disadvantages of various legal alternatives and discuss the effects of file-sharing on American ...

Netflix isn't just sailing ahead of competitors like Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube in the downstream market—it's starkly cutting traffic to BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, ...

The U.K. government said Friday it wants a new law by April 2009 obligating ISPs to stop illegal file sharing on their networks, marking one of the most aggressive stances yet in Europe to counter ...

More people are now using illicit file-sharing networks to download and stream unauthorised versions of TV programming, new research has revealed. Visitors using so-called torrent sites have doubled ...

2011 is going to be a sad year if music pirates, academics, and hackers are able to create more things to get people excited about music than a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Fans have The ...

Peer-to-peer file sharing platform Soulseek has an interesting problem: it's reportedly being swamped by AI-generated cover songs featuring the vocal stylings of none other than Homer Simpson.

If the Nearby Sharing file transfer is slow in Windows 11, make changes to network settings, driver settings, and reset WiFi ...

Windows quietly uses every PC running it as a node in a peer-to-peer file-sharing network for system updates, and most users have no idea it is happening. The feature, called Delivery Optimization, ...