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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

• TOXIC: Every file-sharing program should be treated as toxic, and in fact, many antivirus programs do just that. Make sure your antivirus software detects and disables unwanted file sharing programs ...

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online ...

LimeWire has been ordered by a New York federal judge to disable its peer-to-peer music file-sharing software. Court order follows a May 11 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Kimba M. Wood in New ...

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 ...

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 ...