A data security company in Pennsylvania this weekend confirmed that sensitive schematics for the Sikorsky VH-60N helicopter—better known by the call sign "Marine One" when used as personal transport for the President of the United States—had been leaked over the Gnutella peer-to-peer fil...

Over two years ago, Simon Chester noted, 75 percent of all traffic on the Internet is due to file sharing, with 59 percent of that file sharing attributed to people swapping video files. Music tracks account for 33 percent of the file-sharing traffic. E-mail, it turns out, accounts for just 9 percen...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , which seems totally incapable of understanding that the Internet has completely and irretrievably remade their business, has ended their campaign of suing impoverished college students for downloading mp3s. Since 2003 the RIAA has sued approxima...

Ieri vi abbiamo parlato delle statistiche elaborate dalla società tedesca Ipoque, secondo cui BitTorrent è il protocollo di file sharing più usato al mondo. Nella seconda parte della relazione 2008 di Ipoque, sono stati analizzati altri dati sull’uso che gli utenti fanno del P2P. Nelle ulti...

startups, Software, IT Gregory T. Huang wrote: It could be the most exciting cloud-computing startup you’ve never heard of. It’s two guys in a room overlooking Lake Union, in a hard-to-spot building next to the Fremont Bridge. And it uses Amazon Web Services and other people’s comp...

The Labour lords at the centre of the peers for hire scandal will not be investigated for criminal offences Scotland Yard says....

For quite a while now, there have been mutterings that a high-level UK ISP was about to offer a broadband product which monetised peer-to-peer sharing. If it's not been quite the Holy Grail, the idea has been sought like it was some other cup that Jesus might have used at some point. And Virgin - th...

It’s so interesting to see how different companies are approaching this world of word-of-mouth marketing and outreach. And on one issue, we’re seeing two pathways emerge when it comes to leadership of the community (and when I say “community,� I mean offline and online – not just online, s...

Ever spend hours downloading content off BitTorrent to find that what you downloaded wasn't close to what you wanted, or—worse yet—it contained a virus? Wouldn't it be nice if your BitTorrent tracker verified every torrent? BitTorrent tracker Vertor verifies, scans, and previews BitTorre...

Filed under: Internet, Commercial, Freeware, Open Source, P2P, Social Software, Beta Limewire is one of the oldest filesharing programs around, and it's by far the most popular. The Limewire development team continues to work hard on version 5, which promises to bring some very big changes to the ap...