Unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing on corporate networks appears to be far more widespread than many companies realize. In a study of P2P file sharing at 560 companies, Ottawa-based AssetMetrix ...

LimeWire reenters the file-sharing space with a Web3 approach, launching a new feature powered by BNB Greenfield. Update (Nov. 27, 6:17 am UTC): This article has been updated to add comments from ...

Why it matters: There are a lot of risks associated with peer-to-peer file sharing that justifiably concern US universities. These networks can lead to security issues, they consume a lot of bandwidth ...

Making files accessible between devices, while convenient, sometimes comes with privacy trade-offs or additional costs. Free cloud storage quotas run out too quickly and not everyone has the skills to ...

IF A TECHNOLOGY considered more disruptive to business than peer-to-peer file sharing exists — as seen by the effort to ban corporate access to sites such as Gnutella and Napster — then it has done an ...

Wagner Resource Corp. recently learned the hard way what Pfizer Inc. and many other companies have similarly discovered in the past: installing peer-to-peer file-sharing software on corporate ...

TL;DR: Napster, initially a peer-to-peer file-sharing program launched in 1999, became famous for sharing MP3s but faced legal issues for copyright infringement. After bankruptcy, it transformed into ...