Peer-to-peer file sharing, or P2P, has become enormously popular on college campuses across the country because it allows students to easily exchange music and video files over the Internet. Tens of ...

Traditional centralized file-sharing platforms often face issues such as high server costs, single points of failure, censorship, and slow download speeds due to bottlenecks. A peer-to-peer (P2P) ...

GnuPG is a free and open source implementation of Symantec's PGP encryption software. It uses 'public key' encryption to ...

Have you heard of torrents but don’t know what they are or how they work? Don’t worry because you’re not alone. Torrenting is a widely used method of sharing large files online, but it may seem ...

The number of consumers downloading music from authorized sites could exceed that of peer-to-peer (P2P) users this year, according to research conducted by the NPD Group. The growth rate of ...

Abstract: This paper describes the Open P2P tracing system which aims to improve the research community's understanding of P2P file sharing systems by providing continuous and up-to-date traffic data ...

This month's column was triggered by a number of separate news articles that have come across my desk in the last two months. Taken together, they show, I believe, trends emerging in the battle that ...

Is Harvard Law professor Charlie Nesson crazy? As Nesson himself admits, "this does seem to be a question on many people's minds." In our recent conversation with Nesson, the professor said he hopes ...