Concerned that too many peer-to-peer software users don't know what they're installing and what they're sharing, the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed the "Informed P2P User Act" ...

Innovative software that protects P2P file sharers from lawsuits by copyright holders and identity theft due to the inadvertent sharing of private data is now the 11th most popular download on CNET's ...

A Web site owner who deceptively claimed that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs who joined his Web site would be able to transfer copyrighted materials without violating the law has ...

More and more people are using peer-to-peer (P2P) software to move information across the Internet. Although it has useful applications, P2P technology can be a dangerous thing. P2P programs enable ...

It’ s the last thing P2P File-Sharing Network proponents needed to hear: The Federal Trade Commission this week sent letters to almost 100 organizations that personal information, including sensitive ...

The Federal Trade Commission and Distributed Computing Industry Association locked horns over a proposed law that would govern peer-to-peer networking technology would be used and regulated. Before ...

The Washington Post published an alarming story today about the risk to company computer networks from employees who visit file sharing sites to acquire music, software or videos for personal use.

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 ...

Oversight committee chair also pledges an investigation into whether vendors can be held responsible for failing to install adequate privacy safeguards. The leader of a House oversight panel on ...

Popular, commercially available file-sharing programs would be generally banned from federal systems under a bill proposed in the House. Government employees and contractors would generally be ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

File sharing is the public or private sharing of files or folders on a computer connected to a network. Files can easily be shared outside a network via removable media, but the term file sharing ...