The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of ...

Opening arguments begin today at the Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster, a case that pits two powerful groups against each other: MGM and a coalition of major music companies on the one side, and ...

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online ...

This month's column was triggered by a number of separate news articles that have come across my desk in the last two months. Taken together, they show, I believe, trends emerging in the battle that ...

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 ...

Don Reisinger is happy with Verizon for once because of its stance on P2P file sharing services. Will it last? CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from ...

Soulseek is a free person-to-person (P2P) file sharing application. From what I can gather, it started up around April 2001 and for me is currently the best place to go to for online sharing. Soulseek ...

We had to read this twice to be certain, but Verizon is teaming up with researchers at Yale and a P4P Working group in order to speed up peer to peer file sharing. How is this beneficial to Verizon, ...

Michigan Tech continually faces issues in the areas of copyright infringements and poor network performance caused by network users who are illegally uploading and downloading digital content. Users ...

Mangosoft is rolling out software that will let users share files over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology that could be cheaper than using a VPN and more secure than e-mail. For companies with ...