When Missouri University of Science & Technology recently installed new bandwidth management hardware, Systems Security Analyst Karl Lutzen hit upon a novel idea for using the system to cut down on ...

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 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 ...

Congress is back on the war path about file sharing systems that critics say make it a little too easy for consumers, businesses, and even government agencies to accidentally disclose confidential ...

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 ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court declared in 2005 that Internet file-sharing sites Grokster and StreamCast had illegally aided their customers' efforts to share pirated copies of copyrighted music and ...

There's probably a dozen or more ways this is getting done in your shop. Here's what you need to know to create a supported, secure solution for everyone. In "Jurassic Park," Dr. Malcolm famously ...

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 ...

Wait, you say, that sounds just like BitTorrent. It is, indeed, the same idea: users who download the file share the bits they’ve got with others. But Red Swoosh is easier to use that BitTorrent. You ...

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 ...