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 ...

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 ...

Red Swoosh is a very cool system that enables the downloading of a big file (such as a video) to be distributed among all the people who already have it so that the original publisher of the file ...

Red Swoosh is a very cool system that enables the downloading of a big file (like a video) to be distributed among all the people who already have it, so that the original publisher of the file ...

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 ...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is continuing to wage its war against peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks. On August 25, the RIAA filed new copyright infringement lawsuits ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. P2P file-sharing does have many legitimate uses, particularly among businesses. That being ...

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 ...