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 ...

exactly thrilled, but they thought they knew what they were dealing with: another file-sharing program that let students download not only music, but also pictures, software, video clips, and more.

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 ...

The Supreme Court Tuesday heard arguments in a copyright case brought against file-sharing networks by members of the entertainment industry. Media Correspondent Terence Smith looks at the ongoing ...

Burlington-based Progress Software is acquiring yet another company for big bucks. This time, it’s paying $875 million to buy ShareFile, a business unit of Fort Lauderdale-based Cloud Storage Group.

Cybersecurity experts are bracing for a potential wave of extortion demands after a vulnerability was discovered in encrypted file-sharing software, a flaw that hackers have already used to target a ...

Mangosoft is rolling out software that will let users share files over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology that could be cheaper than using a VPN and more secure than e-mail. For companies with ...

Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he ...