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Adesso Systems this week released a free client application that lets users quickly and easily share and update the information they use every day, such as documents, PDF files, spreadsheets, photos ...

BitTorrent is a protocol developed by Bram Cohen in 2001 that revolutionized file sharing on the internet. Unlike traditional methods where a central server handles the distribution of files, ...

At a computer security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, an Irish software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier to share digital ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LimeWire, a grizzled veteran of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing scene, remains the most popular software for exchanging music, video and software — much of it pirated — through the Internet, ...

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 ...

Why it matters: There are a lot of risks associated with peer-to-peer file sharing that justifiably concern US universities. These networks can lead to security issues, they consume a lot of bandwidth ...

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" ...