The average size of files being shared over peer-to-peer networks has more than doubled since 2002. It's a fact that reflects the types of media being digitized and shared nowadays, and is likely to ...

When Missouri University of Science & Technology recently installed new bandwidth management hardware, Systems Security Analyst Karl Lutzen hit upon a novel idea for using the system to cut down on ...

Red Swoosh is a very cool system that enables the downloading of a big file (such as a video) to be distributed among all the people who already have it so that the original publisher of the file ...

Peer-to-Peer file sharing is an exciting technology for delivering big content files to users who are distributed around a network. In contrast to traditional file servers, where large amounts of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. P2P file-sharing does have many legitimate uses, particularly among businesses. That being ...

Congress is back on the war path about file sharing systems that critics say make it a little too easy for consumers, businesses, and even government agencies to accidentally disclose confidential ...

One of the nation’s largest Internet service providers (ISP), Verizon Communications, is working to make peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks more efficient for transferring large files than ever ...

A new file-sharing system could make downloading large data files such as movies and music as much as five times faster, say U.S. researchers who developed the technology. Computer scientists at ...

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