Typically, campus users of peer-to-peer software can just type in the title of a hit song, get a list of computer users who have a copy, and then download the track to their own music collections -- ...

It took a boom and a bust to do it, but peer-to-peer technology is finding its post-Napster place in the world. Like the Internet itself, peer to peer is settling into a second, more prosaic stage ...

Before the theatrical release of a recent movie, a digital copy of the film was leaked onto the Internet. The media company where the leak occurred scrambled to figure out how the movie was released.

Sun Microsystems Inc. is spearheading an open-source initiative to develop peer-to-peer protocols, giving a welcome boost to a new technology that promises to harness idle computing power, better ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...