Even after cutting a damages award in a file-sharing case to one-tenth the original sum, a judge said Friday the new fine was still excessive. The Massachusetts judge on Friday reduced to US$67,500 an ...

ISLAND LAKE, Ill. — An Island Lake man who used a file-sharing network to share child pornography was handed an eight-year prison sentence this week. Lawrence Root, a 51-year-old Island Lake resident, ...

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.

Netflix isn't just sailing ahead of competitors like Amazon, Hulu, and YouTube in the downstream market—it's starkly cutting traffic to BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, ...

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 ...

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 ...