Peer-to-peer networking has caused a dramatic increase in Internet traffic. Today, the major P2P user is the consumer, and the major application is media file sharing. Music, movies and the like now ...

Verizon will unveil test results detailing how an Internet service provider can boost download speed by about 60 percent if it cooperates with file-sharing software makers. According to the Associated ...

Music industry bigwigs are finally warming to the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing. So much so, in fact, three of the major record labels have agreed to license their catalogues to a P2P network.

Privacy, security and trust are important concerns in peer-to- peer systems. Intruders or competitors that infiltrate your P2P network can cause serious damage. The ...

When a federal judge last month dismissed the lawsuit against file-sharing services Grokster and StreamCast Networks, it sparked the introduction of products to help broadband service providers ...

Swiss and Belgian police have shut down a major component of the eDonkey file-sharing network, used mainly to trade copies of copyrighted movies and music, the Motion Picture Association said on ...

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 ...

IMlogic Inc. and several partners today unveiled a new instant messaging “threat center” clearinghouse aimed at fighting IM viruses, malicious software code and spam before they occur. In an ...

A new service from Mastercard is here, and it offers crypto users a chance to take advantage of its peer-to-peer (P2P) network to send and receive digital assets across various countries. It allows ...

Hi All,<BR> A while back I posted a P2P-related questionnaire which recieved a good response from the Ars community. Now I have a beta-level implementation available ...