When the movie or music industry commissions a study, it's usually to serve either a public relations purpose or lobbying need (or both). Sometimes, however, the study produces results that fall short ...

Sometimes we're alerted to things that happen to fall just out of our radar and the Emprex P2P Download Engine is a classic example of this. We were alerted to this little gadget by a friend at one of ...

Downloading copyrighted music over peer-to-peer networks—is it legal in the US? Judging by the comments and e-mails that we received while covering the two federal file-swapping trials of 2009, it's ...

So far, the main target of P2P downloading has been music, for the simple reason that digitized songs are smaller than digitized movies and can be downloaded more easily. But the rapid proliferation ...

The P4P working group demo'd higher P2P download speeds with 1/6th the inter-metro hops that soak up expensive, long-distance network bandwidth. P4P is designed to enable better ISP and P2P ...

A pact between the French Government, French ISP’s and the local music and film industry will see French users who download material from P2P networks losing their internet access. French internet ...

Ahoy, shipmates! There’ll be no more of this LimeWire free download shenanigans aboard this fine vessel. Yes, P2P ‘pirates’ are singing a sad sea shanty: it seems that the LimeWire file-sharing ...

Users of file-sharing apps who illegally download pornography may unknowingly be setting themselves up for compensation demands from copyright holders, the telecommunications ministry said.