A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial court decision that said file-sharing software programs such as Grokster or Morpheus are legal. Following the lead of a lower-court decision last ...

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 ...

A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site. The software, called Waste, lets ...

Earlier this year, Tiversa CEO Robert Boback testified before a House committee that the stakes with file-sharing software data theft are even higher. He said company researchers had found nearly 200 ...

Harvard Ph.D. candidate Ben Edelman publishes a revealing comparison of popular peer to peer file-sharing software and the bundled programs that install along with them (with or without your ...

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

OTTAWA – The personal health and financial information stored in thousands of North American home computers may be vulnerable to theft through file-sharing software, according to a research study ...

Entertainment groups and consumer organizations were unable Thursday to reach a compromise over a Senate proposal aimed at manufacturers of file-sharing software commonly used to steal electronic ...

LOS ANGELES Bram Cohen didn t set out to upset Hollywood movie studios. But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to ...