TechNewsWorld

Bringing P2P File-Sharing Out of the Shadows, Part 1

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 ...

Best ways to share files securely of 2025

GnuPG is a free and open source implementation of Symantec's PGP encryption software. It uses 'public key' encryption to ...
Lifehacker

LittleShoot Adds P2P File-Sharing to the Browser

New peer-to-peer file sharing web service LittleShoot finds and downloads files right inside your web browser. LittleShoot founder (and former LimeWire engineer) Adam Fisk says he created LittleShoot ...
Computerworld

Bill to make P2P file sharing safer passes House Committee

The House Energy and Commerce Committee this week passed passed the Informed P2P User Act, which is designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. The bill ...
Government Technology

Report: 'Widespread' Data Exposure on P2P File-Sharing Networks

At nearly 100 U.S. organizations -- including schools and local governments -- users with access to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks can steal sensitive information about customers and ...
CRN

Verizon P2P Effort Supports Efficient File Sharing

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 ...
ZDNet

FTC tags schools among data breaches from P2P file sharing

As if RIAA and the MPAA didn't give us enough reasons to ban file-sharing traffic in our schools, the FTC has contacted over 100 organizations (including several schools) who inadvertently released ...
Computerworld

Lawmakers eye bill to make P2P file-sharing safer

The House Committee on Commerce and Energy will hold a markup hearing Wednesday on a bill designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software. The Informed P2P User ...
Government Technology

Graphic Japanese Trojan Attacks P2P File-Sharing Pirates

A warning has been issued about a bizarre Trojan horse that has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been distributed on the ...
Network World

Microsoft P2P tools should help advance corporate file sharing

Microsoft recently released software tools for Windows XP that are intended to encourage the creation of P2P applications. The software development kit also offers an update to Windows XP that ...
TechNewsWorld

Bringing P2P File-Sharing Out of the Shadows, Part 2

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 ...