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 ...

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 ...

In September 2002, a man used his computer to view the entire hard drive contents of the Aspen, Colorado city government network administrator. The Toronto native was using a file-sharing program to ...

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 ...

New York based Pando has been breaking away from the P2P file sharing pack, which we reviewed in late August. They claim over 1.5 million downloads of their client software, and move up to 20 TB of ...

Universal Music Group is suing a pair of file-sharing Web sites over rights to music videos uploaded by users. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press Universal Music Group is suing a pair of ...