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 ...

The ripples of anxiety from last month's landmark Supreme Court ruling on peer-to-peer software haven't quite made it to Jonathan Nilson's home in Tallahassee, Fla. Nilson, a programmer who has been ...

On Monday morning, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made it official: Lars Ulrich has something to smile about. According to the 58-page opinion issued by the court, the MP3 ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Peer-to-Peer file sharing is an exciting technology for delivering big content files to users who ...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing applications allow users to download and share electronic files of all types and to use any computer as a server for file sharing requests. Currently, some of the more ...