A pair of popular file-sharing programs have become privacy time bombs, according to computer experts. Antivirus company Symantec last week reported the presence of "spyware" bundled with Grokster and ...

File-sharing through the dozens of software piracy mills on the Internet and well-known peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa, Morpheus, iMesh, eDonkey, Gnutella, LimeWire and Grokster accounts for ...

In one of the first cases where file sharing programs such as LimeWire were used to steal identities, a Seattle man plead guilty to one count each of mail fraud, accessing a protected computer without ...

A new file-sharing program hit the Net late Wednesday, posted by none other than Internet service provider EarthLink. The software, hosted on an out-of-the-way corner of the company's research and ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that two well-known file-sharing services are not responsible for illegal copying of movies and music by the services’ users. The entertainment-industry groups ...

A poll of attitudes on and perceptions about file sharing, released on Monday by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, indicates that most people believe that file sharing is stealing. But a ...

BitTorrent will crowd source ideas from its 170 million users for its new Sync program for file sharing across multiple computers. Of course, the company is best known for its slightly less legal uses ...

A Web site owner who deceptively claimed that users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs who joined his Web site would be able to transfer copyrighted materials without violating the law has ...

University sophomore "Tom" may not look like a criminal. In the eyes of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, he -- like thousands of other college students -- is a wanted man ...

UC Berkeley is part of an initiative that plans to make online file storage and management available to students, faculty and staff, the campus announced Tuesday. As part of a two-year agreement ...