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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he ...

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 ...

Illegal music file-sharing "declined significantly," down by 17 percent in 2012 compared to 2011, according to The NPD Group. With more services available, such as Spotify, Last.fm and Pandora for ...