I live in an apartment with two other people, and we want to network our computers together for the purpose of file sharing. We want the option of adding computers (notebooks) on the network ...

Decentralized file sharing — using blockchain technology to share data without depending on a centralized server — is often praised for its redundancy, security and censorship resistance. Yet, despite ...

Worse yet, Internet criminals know this, and they are data-mining filesharing networks,” While Mark Gorton, chairman of LimeWire LLC, said his company “takes the problem of inadvertent file-sharing ...

When technicians from Palo Alto Networks installed one of the company’s firewalls in a Fortune 100 company, they were surprised when the device began examining a massive data stream in and out of the ...

As centralized clouds and traditional decentralized solutions face limitations, a new approach to file-sharing enhances data security, scalability and control. Decentralization is a core principle ...

PEER-TO-PEER file swapping networks have been growing in popularity ever since Napster emerged, with Morpheus, Gnutella, and Kazaa being the more popular options in use today. In addition to the ...

The recent announcement by the FTC that sensitive information from nearly 100 organizations had been compromised through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks underscores the risks of this technology.

In this, the Daily's final installment on the issue of file-sharing, we weigh the advantages and disadvantages of various legal alternatives and discuss the effects of file-sharing on American ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology, which allows users to ‘share’ many types of files seamlessly over a decentralised network that is keyword-searchable, has been seen as a major source of ...

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 ...

A software company and its parent are claiming they hold patent rights to widely used Internet song-swapping technology, and they are demanding that several file-sharing networks obtain licenses in ...